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UNDERWATER DIGITAL VIDEO

For many of the field projects on animal behavior conducted by Roger Hanlon there are supporting data on digital video.

Many of these sequences are highly unique (and biologically rich) due to the diving methods and behavioral sampling routines developed by Dr. Hanlon and his colleagues.

Contact Dr. Hanlon directly at concerning viewing, use or sale of this footage, most of which is shot on MiniDV (digital video). NEW IN 2007: High Del TV footage now available on some cephalopod species shot with Panasonic HVX100 (P2 stystem).

Examples:
  1. NEW DISCOVERY: first mimic octopus in the Atlantic ocean. We studied and filmed this in Saba, Netherlands Antilles, in October 2005. This is Octopus defilippi mimicking the coloration and swimming behavior of the common peacock flounder Bothus lunatus.


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  2. Squid sexual selection and mating behavior
    • Caribbean Reef Squid, Sepioteuthis sepioidea, Cayman Islands
    • The Long-finned Squid, Loligo pealei, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA
    • The California Market Squid, Loligo opalescens, Monterey, California, USA

  3. Giant cuttlefish, Sepia apama, of Australia
    • fighting behavior
    • mating and mate guarding
    • behavioral aspects of sperm competition
    • female mimicry by small males
    • female choice
    • camouflage

  4. Flamboyant cuttlefish of Indonesia

  5. The "moving rock" trick

  6. Common Caribbean Octopus vulgaris camouflage change (shown below)



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  7. How Squid Change Color

Mimic Octopus

Two Squid





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