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Now you see me, now you don’t: observation of a squid hiding in its ink trail

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Acknowledgments

We thank the captain and crew of the R/V Natsushima and the Hyper-Dolphin team for their assistance, and Richard Young and Michael Vecchione for identifying the squid. Data in this study is from the NT13-11 cruise, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology.

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  1. Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Chiba, Japan

    Michael J. Miller

  2. Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan

    Tetsuya Miwa & Tatsuhiro Fukuba

  3. Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

    Noritaka Mochioka

  4. College of Bioresource Sciences, Nihon University, Kanagawa, Japan

    Shun Watanabe & Katsumi Tsukamoto

  5. IRAGO Institute, Aichi, Japan

    Yoshiaki Yamada

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Supplementary Video Clip S1. Video recording of a pelagic squid that ejected a narrow ink trail behind it and then quickly moved back within the ink, which was observed at night on 6 June 2013 at a depth of 167 m near the West Mariana Ridge. (MP4 3.35 MB)

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Miller, M.J., Miwa, T., Mochioka, N. et al. Now you see me, now you don’t: observation of a squid hiding in its ink trail. Mar Biodiv 45, 149–150 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-014-0249-9

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