video cuttle fish goes after diver

[FFMDiver]

YouTube - Giant Cuttlefish Attack SCUBA diver

 

[TheWetRookie]

I am sure he just wanted to play. Are cuttlefish known to be aggressive?

 

[FFMDiver]

"One night last winter I picked up a small cuttlefish in the palm of my hand and the little bar-steward nipped a chunk out of my ring finger, there was blood all over the place! my 'neighbours' gave me that 'poor foreigner' look & told me to wash my hand in sea water, which I did. I then had to go into a nearby bar & ask for a band-aid, when I told 'em I'd been bitten by a 'choco' they all fell apart laughing."


from squidfish.net forum

 

[Nick_W]

Maybe it just wanted to cuddle.










I'll be here all week. Try the veal!

 

[ClayJar]

I like how all the little fish rush up to it to congratulate it on such a daring raid. (Okay, maybe I've watched Finding Nemo just once too often. :biggrin

 

[Thalassamania]

Had to be a response to the presence of split fins.

 

[Joe-Diver]

Had to be a response to the presence of split fins.

They are known to enrage some fish......

 

[Thalassamania]

They are known to enrage some fish......

But this was no fish ... this was a cephalopod, one of the brainiest things in the ocean.

 

[Joe-Diver]

But this was no fish ... this was a cephalopod, one of the brainiest things in the ocean.

Okay, so it knew why it was pissed.....