There squid with bright blue "backlighting"

Watasenia scintillans, or shining squid - a small creature, is of great interest. At the end of each tentacle that firefly squid arranged special bodies - photophores - illuminating the dark depths of the sea a bright blue light.





In the heart of the Sea of ​​Japan, in Toyama Bay, these amazing creatures come together in a colony, and captured by the powerful current, in large quantities of water rise to the surface, turning everything around in a glowing fireworks and writhing in various shades of blue. Glowing photophores attract the attention of small fish, which serves food squid, and in the mating season, they light their blue lights to find a mate.





Season catching luminous squid falls on the spring months, and then the fishing boats, filled with thousands of firefly squid themselves are transformed into glittering floating beacons, illuminated bright blue light. Fortunately for tourists to witness this memorable spectacle, enough to buy a ticket for one of the many pleasure boats sail from the port of Namerikava. In Namerikave it is also the world's only museum dedicated to the glowing squid.





Watasenia scintillans got its name in honor of the Japanese scientist Vatase who first observed and described glow squid spring of 1905. Squid-fireflies - the only among the cephalopods, have color vision and are able to distinguish between ambient light from bioluminescence. At night they rise to the surface, adjusting the color and brightness of a source of light coming from the outside, and thus become invisible to predators.

via factroom.ru