Friday 24 August 2012

Longfin squid's camouflage cells dance to Cypress Hill

Squid

A neuroscience company called Backyard Brains made a Longfin Inshore squid dance along to Cypress Hill, by stimulating its chromatophore cells to the tune of Insane in the Brain.


The firm -- founded by University of Michigan graduates -- used a microstimulation system that was last used to make cockroach legs wiggle as researchers whistled into a speaker (which essentially works like a microphone, but in reverse).


By: Mark Brown, Edited by: Duncan Geere


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via Wired.co.uk



http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-08/24/squid-dance

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