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Despite flashy reputation, flamboyant cuttlefish is nearly always camouflaged in the wild
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Roger T. Hanlon
Title: Senior Scientist, Marine Biological Laboratory
Expertise: Cephalopods, Marine biology
Departmental website: https://www.mbl.edu/bell/current-faculty/hanlon/hanlon-biography/
Clifton Ragsdale
Title: Professor of Neurobiology and Organismal Biology
Expertise: Neurobiology, Cephalopods, Octopus
Departmental website: https://drsb.uchicago.edu/program/faculty/clifton-ragsdale