Flamboyant Cuttlefish

Photo: Jane Kempler & Andrew Goldby Freelance · CC BY-NC-ND

Flamboyant cuttlefish are one of the ocean's only toxic cephalopods, advertising their lethal muscle tissue with pulsing waves of white, yellow, and deep maroon that roll continuously across their skin. At Dauin they walk along the black sand on modified arm-tip suckers, hunting small shrimp and fish — a behaviour unique among cuttlefish species.