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Mike Elliott spent hours filming the
Flamboyant cuttlefish in Lembeh Strait, Indonesia. The
2-to-3 inch Flamboyant cuttlefish can’t swim and hover in
midwater like other cuttlefish species. Instead, they
“walk” around on the ocean floor. They get their name from
their bright colors, believed to be a warning to would-be
predators that they are toxic. They lay their eggs under
pieces of reef, or in the case of mucky plains of Lembeh,
in convenient pieces of trash such as discarded coconut
shells. Mike’s contribution includes extremely rare
footage of the tiny cuttlefish hatching from garbanzo
bean-sized eggs.
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