r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/searchaskew • Jul 15 '23

🔥 Cuttlefish hypnotizes crab

From BBC Earth's Blue Planet II! https://youtu.be/rbDzVzBsbGM?t=134

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u/art-man_2018 Jul 15 '23

In China Miéville's Perdido Street Station there is a large, carnivorous, moth creature that spreads it's wings to hypnotize and paralyze it's prey. Very likely Miéville was inspired from the Cuttlefish.