Damo wrote:
Hey thanks ossk.
I know where you're coming from. I spent quite a while looking at the 4 that I saw. Their camo is amazing! I nearly head butted 1 on the bottom. All of them stayed a while until i touched them with my spear.
Their back seems fairly hard/tough.. Is that where the cuttle fish bone is?
Yeah, the cuttle bone is at the top of their hood. Southern Calamari (and presumably all cephalopods - except maybe octopus) actually have a similar bone, but its like a very thin, clear bone (looks almost like a plastic strip). Idk about squiddys, but in cuttles the bone helps them with buoyancy, and presumably offers some level of protection against predators (except predators armed with spearguns - or large teeth).
Popeye wrote:
I don't kill octopus for the same reason, just seems like they have intelligence and some sort of awareness.....and they chewy
Apparently they are as smart as a dog.
It wouldn't surprise me tbh. Though short lived, some of the "higher" cephalopods exhibit extremely intelligent, complex behavior - solving puzzles, responding to conditioning (eg. pavlovs dogs) and display signs of observational learning. Pretty cool stuff.