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Why do squid change colour?
Squid can produce an amazing display of bright colours that continuously shift and change across the surface of their bodies. We think that these patterns of rapidly moving stripes and flickering shapes are used by the squid to communicate with one another or to confuse prey.
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A flying squid
 
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