What a Crab Sees Before It Gets Eaten by a Cuttlefish

Re:What a Crab Sees Before It Gets Eaten by a Cuttlefish by jjmarr on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @04:43PM (#43260099)

Gift link with video, because a static archive doesn't do the opening video justice:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/science/cuttlefish-camouf...

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Re:What a Crab Sees Before It Gets Eaten by a Cuttlefish by chiyc on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @04:46PM (#43260116)

Thanks! I didn't realize the static archive was missing the video. These are better than what's on Santon's site.

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Re:What a Crab Sees Before It Gets Eaten by a Cuttlefish by HenryBemis on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @05:44PM (#43260595)

Here the link to the mp4 file (from my InternetDownloadManager)

https://vp.nyt.com/video/2025/03/03/135038_1_03tb-cuttlefish...

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Re:What a Crab Sees Before It Gets Eaten by a Cuttlefish by indrora on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @09:40PM (#43261974)

There are 4 videos in the article, each with different forms of predatory approach.

It's very neat.

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Re:What a Crab Sees Before It Gets Eaten by a Cuttlefish by codetrotter on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @09:48PM (#43262027)

Using the above gift link as argument to yt-dlp, you can download all four videos in one fell swoop. If you want to just watch the four videos and not read the article.

  yt-dlp --add-metadata "https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/science/cuttlefish-camouflage-huting-crabs.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1U4.y9tH.Aujw5YLUNl3v&smid=url-share"

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Re:What a Crab Sees Before It Gets Eaten by a Cuttlefish by justaj on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @03:57PM (#43272287)

  [NYTimesArticle] Extracting URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/science/cuttlefish-camouflage-huting-crabs.html?unlocked_artic...UNl3v&smid=url-share
  [NYTimesArticle] cuttlefish-camouflage-huting-crabs: Downloading webpage
  ERROR: [NYTimesArticle] cuttlefish-camouflage-huting-crabs: Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden (caused by <HTTPError 403: Forbidden>)

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Re:What a Crab Sees Before It Gets Eaten by a Cuttlefish by codetrotter on Thursday March 06, 2025 @03:32AM (#43277840)

Maybe you have to update yt-dlp, or maybe the link has been used by too many people? For me it worked.

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Re:What a Crab Sees Before It Gets Eaten by a Cuttlefish by ge96 on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @04:50PM (#43260161)

Damn that was quick the attack

reminds me of Nope

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Re:What a Crab Sees Before It Gets Eaten by a Cuttlefish by Terr_ on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @11:22PM (#43262751)

Hmm, for Firefox on Android, the videos animate once and then stop, still-framed forever. Ditto in desktop mode. Weird.

Time to go over to a real computer I guess.

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Re:What a Crab Sees Before It Gets Eaten by a Cuttlefish by vijaybritto on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @02:31AM (#43263870)

Works fine on Brave

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Re:What a Crab Sees Before It Gets Eaten by a Cuttlefish by vekatimest on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @04:19AM (#43264569)

They don't play on Chrome for Android, either.

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Re:What a Crab Sees Before It Gets Eaten by a Cuttlefish by quietbritishjim on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @06:02AM (#43265163)

Works for me on Chrome for Android

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Re:What a Crab Sees Before It Gets Eaten by a Cuttlefish by x______________ on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @11:49PM (#43276532)

The playback was broken on Firefox android from both the main site and direct url here as well, but was able to watch the video correctly after downloading it locally.

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Re:What a Crab Sees Before It Gets Eaten by a Cuttlefish by iammiles on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @11:50PM (#43262966)

I appreciate the gift but I suspect sleep tonight will be less than appreciative.

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Re:What a Crab Sees Before It Gets Eaten by a Cuttlefish by h0l0cube on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @04:01PM (#43272335)

I don’t think the crabs are confusing their prey so much as paralyzing them with fear

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Re:What a Crab Sees Before It Gets Eaten by a Cuttlefish by h0l0cube on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @07:22PM (#43274605)

*cuttlefish

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Re:What a Crab Sees Before It Gets Eaten by a Cuttlefish by Apofis on Thursday March 06, 2025 @10:53AM (#43281620)

Why not post the OP with this link?

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