The Flamboyne Cuttlefish is one of Ambonne's most beautiful and fascinating creatures.
Like all cephalopods, it has the ability to change its skin colour. This enables it to
blend perfectly into the sandy background, or to display its vivid, excited colours.
The majority of the time, they spend slowly walking along the sandy bottoms, though occasionally,
if you're lucky, you can see them swim.
It's thought the bright colours they display are a warning.
Their skin is known to be very toxic, therefore the warning is very important to warn potential
predators to stay away.
They also display their colours when they get excited.
As can be seen here, as the Flamboyne Cuttlefish closes in on its prey.
Flamboynes are not particularly shy, and if you get lucky, and with a little bit of patience,
get to witness some great behaviour, especially when they feed.
Flamboynes have two specialised feeding arms, and when they close in on their prey, they
push these two arms out together, in what seems like a tube, so that they can make a
lightning fast strike on the small prey in front.
These neck shots I filmed in slow motion, so you can clearly see the feeding action.
I was extremely lucky though, to see something I hadn't seen before.
Especially when the Flamboyne speed, as in all the previous shots, you can see the two
arms coming out to form a tube.
However, this time, the two arms came out, one above the other, so you can clearly see
their separate arms.
This was something I had never seen before.
