Marine biologists have started prying on squids’ world to find out how these creatures hear and how they respond to sounds in the ocean.
It is only in recent times that scientists have accepted that cephalopods have any auditory capability at all.
But new experiments have demonstrated that noises of varying loudness and frequency will elicit a range of behaviours in the animals - such as jetting or inking, and even a change of colour.
Dr Aran Mooney from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) of Massachusetts, US insisted that squids represent something of a keystone species in the ocean, sitting right at the heart of many food webs. If they are not the predator in those webs, they will almost definitely be the prey.
Read on: http://www.phenomenica.com/2012/02/what-sound-means-to-squids.html
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