The big purple occies we sometimes find around Sydney don’t have many enemies other than seals and mulloway, though they still need to beware of us humans. Cuttlefish have lower edible value (unless you’re a budgie, who just love a cuttlefish bone). It’s pretty cool!Ĭuttlefish and octopus, also in the cephalopod family have the same unusual abilities but are not as good on a plate, nor as plentiful. They can come out of the water yellow or dark brown, matching the kelp or weed below, then instantly turn translucent, or when laid on barnacled rocks become speckled and multi-coloured in an effort to camouflage themselves. When fresh and lively out of the water, each squid is unique. Squid are a most unusual animal and so are those who chase them. It’s usually their high quality as both bait and food, or the appeal in hunting a creature with the ability to change pattern and colour like a chameleon, and which uses suction to cling to its prey – something bred into us as children as the trait of monsters. It’s not their fight that we’re after though. No doubt they have the same urge for freedom as a fish but they lack the apparatus to gain it.
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