A clam known as the disco clam has the ability to reflect light! What is causing this? Trace explains how this clam has such a unique feature, and discusses a few other animals that have cool party tricks!
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Disco Clams Use Silica Strip To Make Light Shows (Video)
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"Renowned for their flashy displays of light, disco clams were previously thought to be bioluminescent, but a new study claims the mollusks actually put on light shows because of their reflective tissues."
How the Flashy Disco Clam Lights Up the Sea
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"The only known species of bivalve capable of performing a flashy light show with its lips is the appropriately named disco clam."
Pfeffer's Flamboyant Cuttlefishes
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"Pfeffer's flamboyant cuttlefishes, Metasepia pfefferi (Hoyle, 1885), are truly amazing animals and well named."
Metasepia pfefferi
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"Pfeffer's flamboyant cuttlefish, Metasepia pfefferi, is found in Tropical Indo-Pacific oceans, especially along the coast of northern Australia, western Australia, and across to the southern edge of New Guinea."
Introducing The Flamboyant Cuttlefish
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"Speaking of cephalopods which have surprised by not being too heavy to fly after all, I was reminded of one little cuttlefish who is actually too heavy to swim: Metasepia pfefferi, or Pfeffer's Flamboyant Cuttlefish."
Anglerfish
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Cane Toads
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5 Animals That Love To Party (For Real)
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"A lot of people consider themselves to be party animals. In nature there are actual party animals."
Are there really hallucinogenic frogs?
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"In the 1980s, the Australian government outlawed the consumption of cane toad excretions under the Drug Misuse Act."
How does catnip work its magic on cats?
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"Cats, from our domestic companions to lions and tigers, are exquisitely susceptible to a volatile oil found in the stems and leaves of the catnip plant."
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