Axons (nerve fiber) of the Woods Hole squid (loligo pealei) reacting to Cypress Hill's classic song and causing it's chromatophores to put on a show. This is pretty damn cool.
Chromatophores are pigment-containing and light-reflecting cells found in amphibians, fish, reptiles, crustaceans, and cephalopods. They are largely responsible for generating skin and eye colour in cold-blooded animals and are generated in the neural crest during embryonic development. Mature chromatophores are grouped into subclasses based on their colour (more properly "hue") under white light: xanthophores (yellow), erythrophores (red), iridophores (reflective / iridescent), leucophores (white), melanophores (black/brown) and cyanophores (blue). The term can also refer to coloured, membrane associated vesicles found
in some forms of photosynthetic bacteria. Some species can rapidly change colour through mechanisms that translocate pigment and reorient reflective plates within chromatophores. This process, often used as a type of camouflage, is called physiological colour change or metachrosis. Cephalopods such as octopus have complex chromatophore organs controlled by muscles to achieve this, while vertebrates such as chameleons generate a similar effect by cell signaling. Such signals can be hormones or neurotransmitters and may be initiated by changes in mood, temperature, stress or visible changes in local environment.
By: ghastlyghost
In: Other Entertainment, Nature
Tags: axons, chromatophores, squid, backyardbrains, cypress hill, music, rap, color, change, changing, cool, wtf, chromataphores, ghastlyghost, 2012
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Posted Aug-26-2012 Bymrvipster (283.20) 
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Great video.
Posted Aug-26-2012 Byblastronaut (95.80) 
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fuck yeah!!
Posted Aug-26-2012 Bymorningwood (555.20)

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Screw tattoos. I want my genes altered so I can do this.
Posted Aug-26-2012 BytehJenkem (263.60) tehJenkem View Channel Send Message
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Both interesting and educational. Great post. Voted.
Posted Aug-26-2012 ByEluf-ant (341.90) 
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Cool :)
Posted Aug-26-2012 Bypaperboy (306.00) 
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LoL, that's cool shit!
Like Louie Armstrong, played the trumpet
I'll hit that bong and break ya off somethin' soon
I got ta get my props
Cops, come and try to snatch my crops
These pigs wanna blow my house down
Head underground, to the next town
They get mad when they come to raid my pad
And I'm out in the nine-deuce Cad
Best part if the song! And Cypress Hill are classic!! Hits from the bong!
Posted Aug-26-2012 ByBthor420 (870.60) 
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i'm gonna bring a squid to my next rave.
Posted Aug-26-2012 Bylonewolf01 (88.92) 
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A Bio-Video screen.
Posted Aug-26-2012 ByRhemis (1072.78) 
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WTF
Posted Aug-26-2012 ByML83 (204.00) 
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easily best post of the month, for which you get a vote.
thanks for sharing.
Posted Aug-26-2012 ByKasmackba (369.18) Kasmackba View Channel Send Message
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@Kasmackba Cheers :)
Posted Sep-2-2012 Byghastlyghost (26966.80) 
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I don't get the science behind it but man that's some cool shit. So organic lookin.
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