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Re:The Cuttlefish, a Master of Camouflage, Reveals a New Trick by tzs on Thursday February 15, 2018 @08:26PM (#16389238)
On a nature documentary whose name I don't recall [1], they showed a great example of a cuttlefish disguising himself.

There was a larger than average male with a harem of females, and there was a smaller than average male that wanted to mate with the females, but was nowhere near strong enough to beat the big male in combat.

So the small male took advantage of his small size. He took on the appearance of a female, and approached the large male as a female would.

The large male was fooled, and accepted the small male into the harem. As the large male continued vigilantly watching for approaching challengers, the little male mated with all the harem females right under the big male.

[1] I almost certainly saw it on one of the Nat Geo channels, one of the Discovery channels, BBC America, or PBS.

Edit: a bit of Googling turned it up. It was in the BBC documentary series "Life" from 2009. It's this segment: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p005bpsl

I misremembered a little. The large male only had one female, not a harem, when the small male joined.

Re:The Cuttlefish, a Master of Camouflage, Reveals a New Trick by ralusek on Thursday February 15, 2018 @09:23PM (#16389423)
"Sneaky male" is often the term for such strategies in nature.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_mating_strategy

Re:The Cuttlefish, a Master of Camouflage, Reveals a New Trick by brokenmachine on Friday February 16, 2018 @12:41AM (#16390166)
That same thing was also in Blue Planet II.

In 4k/HDR it's bloody amazing, the color changing of the cuttlefish is ridiculous.

Re:The Cuttlefish, a Master of Camouflage, Reveals a New Trick by tomonocle on Thursday February 15, 2018 @08:49PM (#16389311)
That was in the recent (and incredible) Blue Planet II from the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4tfgmTgfJHlJpvvMnRl...
Re:The Cuttlefish, a Master of Camouflage, Reveals a New Trick by mistermann on Thursday February 15, 2018 @08:34PM (#16389273)
I have it on my machine at home I'm quite sure, will post the name later.
Re:The Cuttlefish, a Master of Camouflage, Reveals a New Trick by mistermann on Monday February 19, 2018 @01:23AM (#16411113)
PBS.NOVA.2007.Cuttlefish.Kings.of.Camouflage