hypnocritter

Do you remember the Hypnotoad from Futurama? (FOX Film keeps taking down the short clips posted on YouTube (yeah, fans encouraging views of the television series has got to be bad for business), so you'll have to search for current uploads yourself.) It was a frog with large eyes that pulsated in patterns that could hypnotize his targets and bend them to his will.

Well, there is an actual Earth animal that does pretty much the same thing, stunning potential prey with hypnotic displays. And it's the cuttlefish that I was talking about earlier. Watch this clip (scroll down to episode "A Dazzling Show", fast forward 2 minutes into the movie clip), and be dazzled by Hypnotoad-of-the-Sea.