hypnocritter
2007-Dec-13, Thursday 09:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mellowtiggerDo 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.
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.
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Date: 2007-Dec-13, Thursday 05:31 pm (UTC)I've seen animals that could change color before, some even very quickly and dramatically, but I have NEVER seen anything that could cycle through color changes so quickly like that though. AMAZING!