Watch this cuttlefish turn into a leaf and a coral to hunt its prey

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Cuttlefish routinely display four distinct types of moving camouflage to disguise themselves while stalking their prey — from looking like a leaf to a coral. Cuttlefish change their whole color and texture in less than the blink of a human eye thanks to color pigments called chromatophores. When Santon travelled to Indonesia to study passing stripe camouflage in Sepia latimanus, he realised the same cuttlefish were also pulling off three other camouflages too.

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