cuttlefish is able to rapidly change the pattern of both color and reflectivity of its skin. It can produce coherent moving patterns of color and reflectivity like iridescent zebra bands that move from head to tail or tail to head with its skin, much like an electronic display, and use this capability both to camouflage, and to communicate.
it can even do different patterns on either side to suite purpose, for example it might flash brilliant moving zebra stripe on its right side to signal to another cuttlefish, and hold a static pattern of different colors to camouflage itself against the background when seen from the left side.
it can even do different patterns on either side to suite purpose, for example it might flash brilliant moving zebra stripe on its right side to signal to another cuttlefish, and hold a static pattern of different colors to camouflage itself against the background when seen from the left side.