Sunday, May 13, 2018

Mesmerizing Footage of a Tiny Baby Octopus Changing Color as It Bursts Out of Its Egg Sac



Octopuses have chromatophores that change color allowing them to camouflage themselves. It appears that the sudden stimulation of hatching caused them to fire off…We believe that the stress of hatching causes the octopus’s chromatophores to fire almost immediately, resulting in the color change you see there.


https://laughingsquid.com/baby-octopus-burst-out-of-their-egg-sacs/

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