We named him Squirt – not because he was the smallest of the 16 cuttlefish in the pool, but because anyone with the audacity to scoop him into a separate tank to study him was likely to get soaked.
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The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. We named him Squirt – not because he was the smallest of the 16 cuttlefish ...