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English: Broadback Cuttlefish in motion camouflage hunting pose. The predator creates a "passing-stripe" pattern on its front, reducing its appearance of looming larger as it approaches its crab prey.
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Redrawn after (2025). "Stealth and deception: Adaptive motion camouflage in hunting broadclub cuttlefish". Science Advances 11 (13). DOI:10.1126/sciadv.adr3686.

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Broadback Cuttlefish in motion camouflage hunting pose. The predator creates a "passing-stripe" pattern on its front, reducing its appearance of looming larger as it approaches its crab prey.

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