Scientific name: Sepioteuthis lessoniana
Size: Up to 17.7 inches
Color: Metallic blue or green
Distinguishing feature: 10 tentacles (you can see 8). A large fin continues all over the mantle (which makes it looks like a cuttlefish). Translucent with blue or green metallic highlights. Speckled with white dots, very big eyes to its size.
Where did we see it: Mayotte
Scientific name: Sepioteuthis lessoniana
Size: Up to 17.7 inches
Color: Metallic blue or green
Distinguishing feature: 10 tentacles (you can see 8). A large fin continues all over the mantle (which makes it looks like a cuttlefish). Translucent with blue or green metallic highlights. Speckled with white dots, very big eyes to its size.
Where did we see it: Mayotte
This squid is present in the temperate waters of the Indian and Pacific oceans.
Like mammals or octopuses, squids have developed advanced learning skills by watching other specimens do things they didn't know. These intelligent species, which live mainly in shoals (not school).
These predators are mainly tunas, marlins and swordfish.
Some sharks can stay motionless on the sand (white tips reef sharks, nurse sharks, etc.).
These sharks don't have to swim to bring oxygen to their gills like other sharks (grey, hammerheads tc.)
We can hear the bull shark is very dangerous because of attacks near La Réunion island.
However, tens of them are living at 600 feet from the famous beach of Playa Del Carmen in Mexico. And there are no attacks.
The tiger shark has slender marks similars to the lines of tigers, hence its name.
When it is juvenile, these marks are round and not vertical. They change when it grows.