Carina
admin_kristinI’m a Scientist is like school science lessons meet the X Factor! School students choose which scientist gets a prize of $1000 to communicate their work.
Scientists and students talk on this website. They both break down barriers, have fun and learn. But only the students get to vote.
This zone is the Boron Zone. It has a range of scientists studying all different topics. Who gets the prize? YOU decide!
This is my favourite question so far 🙂 octopuses don’t talk or make any sound. Like other cephlapods, ocotopuses communicate through changing their body colour patterns. While I was aware of the general notion of communicating by colour I did not know how it worked. So I went and downloaded the latest science on the topic. Octopuses are now my favourite marine animal – they are awesome and believed to be the smartest invertebrate (animal with no back bone). OK back to communication. Octopus has skin that contains cells that can produce colour (chromatophore) as well as light reflectors. The reflectors capture light and create and reflect colourful polarized light pattens. Then the other cool side of their anatomy is their eyes – they cant see true colour as we can, but they can see polarized light when it is structured linearly. So in other words they can rapidly change colour to attract mates, warn of danger, distract prey etc. Oh and they can predict the winners of soccer matches as well.
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Yes they can.
http://www.octopuscomms.net/
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Awesome animals! As Mark covered so brilliantly octopus don’t talk, but communicate some quite complex messages. These are particularly evident at mating times, but may also occur at other times as well. In addition to changing colour cephalopods (including octopus, squid, cuttlefish and nautiloids) also use gestures to communicate.
Blue-ringed Octopus is a classic example, not only are they able to communicate with one another, they are also able to communicate with other species, including humans. If they feel threatened the octopus will flash their usually drab brown patches, as a vivid bright-blue coloured ring. This serves as a warning for the other animal to keep away or they could be bitten – a good warning to take notice of given how potent the venom of this octopus can be!
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I think that Mark and James’ answers sum up things very well!
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