Comments for The Giant Cuttlefish

Comment on 25. Tracking by PGS

PGS — Sun, 05 May 2013 22:40:56 +0000

On the cephalopod side, Jennifer Mather has done a lot of work of this kind. Also David Scheel, who has started to work with us at Octopolis.

The article about Paine is interesting. Not exactly non-invasive, though! I was a bit appalled (OK not appalled, just a bit startled) when I read, in the Nature article, what he did to the coastline to get his work started. Glad when he restored it all. And I don’t deny the work’s scientific value, or doubt that it would have been very difficult to make those discoveries any other way.

Comment on 25. Tracking by Davie

Davie — Fri, 03 May 2013 20:56:15 +0000

Is there a traditional of noninvasive behavioral studies in natural settings with marine animals? To address questions of cognition and perception, social interaction, etc…

People did some surprising and ingenious stuff back in the day to study marine environments — maybe this spirit spread to marine animal scientists?
http://www.nature.com/news/scientific-families-dynasty-1.12205

Comment on 25. Tracking by Point

Point — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:07:29 +0000

Animals are much more intelligent than we like to think. It can be very hard to trap adult mice, for instance. Read a book called “Birds as Individuals” by Howard. She tamed the birds in her garden and found that each had its own personality.