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Cross dressing males (the Cuttlefish)

April 19th, 2008 1:10 am MDT

i love cephalopods, awesome beautiful transformative creatures of fluid movement... they are now 10 times better in my book because of this
"Cross dressing males (the Cuttlefish)
With between four and
11 males for every female on the breeding ground, competition among Giant
cuttlefish is fierce. Smallish males, rather than duke it out, take on the
guise of females and try to sneak their way to matings."
Apparently “cross dressing” is the accepted scientific term for this type of camouflage .
Also, according to Nova, the female cuttlefish actually preferred the
sperm of the cross-dressing males over that of the larger males"
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/camo/change.html#ch04
mother nature is just so awesome :}