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  Walton, John. Storied Land: Community and Memory in Monterey. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.

  Ward, Peter Douglas. In Search of Nautilus. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988.

  Weare, Nancy V. Plum Island: The Way It Was. Newbury, MA: Newburyport Press, 1996.

  Wells, M. J. Octopus: Physiology and Behaviour of an Advanced Invertebrate. London: Chapman and Hall, 1978.

  Wilford, John Noble. “From Arctic Soil, Fossils of a Goliath That Ruled the Jurassic Seas.” New York Times, March 17, 2009, D-3.

  Wong, Kate. “Shell Game.” Scientific American, February 2009: 26.

  Young, John Zachary, “Cephalopods and Neuroscience.” The Biological Bulletin 168 Suppl. (June 1985): 153–58.

  Young, Richard Edward, and Clyde F. Roper, “Bioluminescent Countershading in Midwater Animals: Evidence from Living Squid.” Science 191 (March 12, 1976): 1046–48.

  Ziedberg, Louis David. “First Observations of Sneaker Mating in the California Market Squid, Doryteuthis opalescens (Cephalopoda: Myopsida).” Journal of the Marine Biology Association 2–Biodiversity Records 5998. http://www.mba.ac.uk/jmba/biodiversityrecords.php?jmbaref

  Zeidberg, Louis D., and Bruce H. Robison. “Invasive Range Expansion by the Humboldt Squid, Dosidicus gigas, in the Eastern North Pacific.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 104, no. 31: 12948–50. http://www.pnas.org/content/104/31/12948.abstract

  Zimmer, Carl. At the Water’s Edge: Macroevolution and the Transformation of Life. New York: Free Press, 1998.

  VIDEOS

  “Aliens of the Deep.” Walt Disney Pictures, 2005.

  Beast. Made-for-television movie, 1996.

  “Cuttlefish: Kings of Camouflage.” Nova, 2007.

  “Devils of the Deep: Jumbo Squid.” Creatures of the Deep, National Geographic, 2008.

  “Eyeball to Eyeball: An Interview with Clyde Roper.” First Person Series, Errol Morris, 2000.

  It Came from Beneath the Sea. Columbia Pictures, 1955.

  “Quest for the Giant Squid.” Discovery Channel, 2000.

  Pirates of the Caribbean. Walt Disney Pictures, 2006.

  “Science Is Fiction: 23 Films by Jean Painlevé.” Criterion Collection, re-release 2009.

  “Sea Monsters: Search for the Giant Squid.” National Geographic Video, 1998.

  CREDITS

  Page 9: Carl Chun (1903). Image from the NOAA Photo Library; page 18: The Fisheries of the World by F. Whymper (1883); page 19: Janice Adamek, courtesy of Fossilmall.com; page 23: Image courtesy of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. © 2003 MBARI; page 24: Image courtesy of Submarine Ring of Fire 2002: Explorer Ridge (NOAA Ocean Explorer http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/02fire/logs/jul31/media/octopus.html); pages 30, 32, 43: photos by Greg Auger; page 45: Reproduced by permission of the British Geological Survey. © NERC. All rights reserved. IPR/128-03CY; page 46: photo by Greg Auger; page 65: New England Aquarium; pages 69 and 73: Photo by T. Kubodera, National Museum of Nature and Science Japan; pages 76, 77, 93, 99: photos by Greg Auger; page 102: National Institute of Health; page 105: photo by Greg Auger; pages 111, 133, 148: photos by Greg Auger; page 151: Pierre Denys de Montfort (1802); page 153: Modern Mechanix (1949); pages 159, 160, 186: photos by Greg Auger

  All efforts have been made to locate and credit appropriate rights holders. Requests for changes will be considered by the publisher, and any necessary corrections or revisions will be amended in future reprints.

  INDEX

  Adami, Chris

  Air Force Research Laboratory (Dayton)

  algae

  Allen, Robert D.

  Alzheimer’s disease

  ammonites

  amoebas

  Andersen, Bruce

  Antarctica

  Aplysia (sea hare)

  Aquarium of the Pacific (California)

  Architeuthis. See giant squid (Kraken) (Architeuthis)

  Armstrong, Clay

  Asperoteuthis acanthoderma

  Atherton, Steve

  Australia

  autophagy

  autotomy

  axons: cell molecule functions in

  described

  electrical impulses in

  Loligo pealei

  axoplasm

  Azores

  bacteria (Vibrio fischeri)

  Bahamas

  bathyscaphoid squid

  beak: Humboldt squid

  Kraken (Architeuthis)

  Beebe, William

  Bekoff, Marc

  Benchley, Peter

  bioluminescence

  and bacteria

  functions of

  “light organ”

  species with

  birds, and learning process

  Block, Barbara

  blue-ringed octopus

  blue whales

  Boal, Jean G.

  Bowling Green State University (Ohio)

  Brady, Scott T.

  brain

  See also intelligence

  California Institute of Technology

  California market squid (Loligo opalescens)

  Cambrian Explosion

  Cameroceras (genus)

  camouflage

  and color-changing

  military applications

  cancer research

  cannibalism

  Cape Cod. See Marine Biological

  Laboratory (Woods Hole)

  Caribbean

  Caribbean reef squid

  Carlson, Bruce

  Carr, Archie

  Carroll, Sean B.

  Carson, Rachel

  Cayman Islands

  cell body

  cell division

  cell molecules

  and electrical impulses

  functions of

  cell nucleus

  cephalopods: and adaptability

  anatomy; (see also specific parts)

  and bioluminescence

  camouflage

  circulatory system

  color-changing ability

  and communication

  defense mechanisms (see defense mechanisms)

  electrical impulses

  evolution of

  fisheries

  gills and respiration

  habitat, water-column

  habitats, world

  intelligence

  life span

  mating and reproduction

  nervous system

  and predation

  propulsion and navigation

  research applications (see medical research military research)

  resting behavior

  shared characteristics

  and size

  skin characteristics

  species compris-ing

  taxonomy

  and teuthology.

  See also specific species

  channelopathies, study of

  chemoreceptors

  Cherel, Yves

  chromatophores

  circulatory system

  Cleveland Metroparks

  clubhook squid (Moroteuthis robusta)

  color-blindness

  color-changing ability

  and chromatophores

  as defense mechanism

  color perception

  colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni)

  Coltin, Bill

  communication methods:

  bioluminescence

  chromatophores

  Conception Bay (Newfoundland)

  conservation, species

  Cosgrove, James

  counter-shading

  Cousteau, Jacques

  ctenoglossans

  cuttlefish: anatomy

  and bioluminescence

  and camouflage

  color-changing ability

  and communication

  cuttlebone

  defense mechanisms

  eyes

  feeding behavior

  feeding tentacles

  in food chain

&n
bsp; frustration response

  habitat, water-column

  intelligence

  life span

  mating and reproduction

  cuttlefish, flamboyant

  cuttlefish maze

  Dana octopus squid (Taningia danae)

  Darwin, Charles

  deep-sea octopus (Vulcanoctopus hydrothermalis)

  defense mechanisms: bioluminescence

  body translucence

  color-changing

  counter-shading

  evolutionary

  ink discharge

  pseudomorph

  self-mutilation

  and tentacles

  and water depth

  DeGiorgis, Joe

  dendrites

  digestive system

  diseases. See medical research

  DNA

  in evolution

  in neurons

  dogs, research on

  domoic acid poisoning

  dopamine

  Dosidicus gigas. See Humboldt squid

  (Dosidicus gigas)

  Early, Greg

  ecosystems, ocean: degradation of

  and global warming

  electrical impulses

  in axons

  “ion channels”

  Loligo pealei

  Ellis, Richard

  Euprymna scolopes (Hawaiian bobtail squid)

  evolution

  and bacteria

  Cambrian Explosion

  hypothetical family tree

  and intelligence

  and ocean chemistry changes

  and reproduction. See also Darwin, Charles

  evolution, convergent

  evolution, parallel

  extinction

  and adaptability

  conservation efforts

  eye, camera

  “eyeless” gene

  eyesight

  and bioluminescence

  blindness

  color-blindness

  and evolution

  optic glands

  feeding tentacles: cuttlefish

  squid

  females. See mating and reproduction

  Field, John

  Finger, Stanley

  “fire shooter” squid (Heteroteuthis dispar)

  Fleming, Alexander

  food chain, otter-urchin-kelp

  fossil studies

  Franklin, Ben

  Friday Harbor Laboratories (Seattle)

  frustration behavior

  funnel, cephalopod

  Galápagos

  Galton, Sir Francis

  Galvani, Luigi

  genes

  and neuroscience,. See also DNA

  genus (term), described

  Georgia Aquarium

  giant Pacific octopus (GPO) (Octopus dofleini): at aquariums

  arms

  autotomy and autophagy behavior

  and camouflage

  circulatory system

  color-changing ability

  Cousteau’s filming of

  defense mechanisms

  diet

  in fiction

  gills and respiration

  habitat

  and intelligence

  life span

  mating and reproduction

  predation

  propellation

  size

  solitary behavior of

  suckers

  temperament

  giant squid (Kraken) (Architeuthis): anatomy

  attacks on humans (see Piccot, Theophilus)

  chromatophores

  deep-water filming of

  evolution of

  feeding tentacles

  in fiction

  in food chain

  gills and respiration

  habitat, world

  identifying

  and intelligence

  life span

  mantle

  mating and reproduction

  neurogenesis

  number of species

  predation

  size

  speciman dissection (2008)

  specimen recoveries

  suckers

  taste of

  temperament

  gills. See also respiration

  Gilly, William F.: Architeuthis research

  on cephalopod intelligence

  Dosidicus gigas research

  Hopkins Marine Station lab (Monterey)

  Squids4Kids program

  Glanzman, David

  Glazier, Monique

  global warming

  Goldstein, Miriam

  Gould, Stephen J.

  GPO. See giant Pacific octopus (GPO) (Octopus dofleini)

  Great Barrier Reef

  “green fluorescent protein”

  “Greg” (octopus)

  Griffin, Don

  Guiterman, Arthur

  Gulf of Mexico

  habitat

  changes in

  Hanlon, Roger

  Harvard

  Harvey, Moses

  Hawaiian bobtail squid (Euprymna scolopes)

  Hebrew University

  Heinrich, Bernd

  Heteroteuthis dispar (deep-sea squid)

  Hobson, Keith A.

  Hochberg, Eric

  Hochner, Binyamin

  Hodgkin, Alan

  Hopkins Marine Station (Monterey)

  Hoving, Hendrick Jan

  human infants: dendrite development in

  fetal development research

  Humboldt squid (Dosidicus gigas):

  anatomy

  attacks on humans

  bioluminescence

  camouflage

  cannibalism

  circulatory system

  color-changing ability

  defense mechanisms

  feeding tentacles

  in food chain

  gills and respiration

  and habitat

  habitat expansion

  intelligence

  mating and reproduction

  migration patterns

  Monterey Bay population

  Monterey Bay research cruise (November 2009)

  nervous system

  and Ocean Sciences 2010

  predation

  research funding for

  social behavior

  speed

  strandings

  sucker rings

  taste of

  temperament

  tracking tags

  Hunt, Tim

  hunting. See predation

  Huxley, Andrew

  ink sacs

  in cephalopods

  intelligence: attributes of

  and communication

  defining

  and evolution

  frustration response

  and learning process, (see also prey puzzles); measuring

  nature-versus-nurture

  and predation

  and social behavior

  ions

  iridophores

  Japan

  Japanese flying squid

  jellyfish

  Jorgensen, Salvador

  Kaikoura Canyon (New Zealand)

  Kandel, Eric

  Kimberella

  kinesin molecule

  Klingel, Gilbert

  Kraken. See giant squid (Kraken)

  (Architeuthis)

  Kubodera, Tsunemi

  La Jolla (California)

  Loeb, Jacques

  Loligo opalescens (California market squid)

  Loligo pealei

  neuroscience research on

  “Lucky Sucker” (octopus)

  luminosity. See bioluminescence

  MacInnis, Joseph

  males. See mating and reproduction mantle

  “light organ” in

  Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole): animal-bacteria symbiosis lecture

  author at

  cephalopod camouflage research

  fetal development research

&nbs
p; neuroscience research

  Marshall, Greg

  Martha’s Vineyard

  mating and reproduction

  animal-bacteria symbiosis

  and bioluminescence

  and brooding

  death, after

  guard males

  hypodermic reproduction

  and mating

  sneaker males

  maze, cuttlefish

  McFall-Ngai, Margaret

  McQuhae, Peter

  medical research: on addiction

  Alzheimer’s

  animal-bacteria symbiosis

  bowel disease

  cancer treatments

  chromosome-based diseases

  human fetal research

  and neuroscience. See also medicines

  medicines

  antibiotics

  for breast cancer

  channel blockers

  penicillin

  tranquilizers

  Menard, Wilmon

  Menashi, Wilson P.

  mercury levels

  Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni (colossal squid)

  microscopy, video-enhanced

  migration, water-column

  migration patterns, changes in

  military research: camouflage

  Millersville University (Pennsylvania)

  mollusks (Mollusca)

  Aplysia

  circulatory system

  evolution of

  and intelligence

  Kimberella

  number of species

  Monterey Bay, California: Architeuthis specimen recovered (2008)

  Humboldt squid population

  research cruise (November 2009), See also Hopkins Marine Station

  Montfort, Pierre Denys de

  Mori, Kyoichi

  Moynihan, Martin

  Murphy, Bill

  muscles, electricity in

  muscles, sucker

  mussels

  Mystic Aquarium (Connecticut). See also “Sammy” (GPO)

  Nagel, Thomas

  National Geographic (Society)

  National Geographic (pub.)

  National Institutes of Health

  National Marine Fisheries Service (Santa Cruz)

  Nature (pub.)

  nautilus

  nautilus, paper

  navigation

  and vestibular system. See also propulsion and steering

  nerve cells: in color-changing ability. See also axons; neurons

  neurobiology

  neuroethology

  neurogenesis

  neurons

  electrical impulses in

  shared characteristic with humans

  neuroscience: electricity studies

  intelligence research

  Loligo pealei research

  MBL research on

  nerve injury research

  neurotransmitters

  Newburyport High School

  New England Aquarium.

  See also “Truman” (GPO)

  Newfoundland

  New Zealand

  Nichols, Peter

  Nobel Prize

  Norman, Mark

  North Atlantic

  North Pacific

  Ocean Sciences 2010 (Portland)

 

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