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According to the April 23 Science section, the subtle squids discharge a cloud of ink to escape enemies. Presumably the octopus and cuttlefish employ the same method of self-defense; they are not the only ones...
Extremely sly and subtle fishes Are octopi or cuttlefishes. Rather than own themselves defeated They squirt a cloud of ink and beat it. Thus emulating in their capers The editors of Commie papers...
Squids, say the natural history books, use their ink to form clouds that blind pursuers. Not so, says D.N.F. Hall of the Singapore Regional Fisheries Research Station, writing in Nature. Squids are more subtle than that...
Hall began to doubt the cloud theory when he watched squids discharging their ink. It does not form a cloud for a considerable time, but hangs together as a dark, viscous mass. To learn more, Hall experimented with a small captive squid in a light-colored wooden tub. When his hand approached it, the squid changed color rapidly, as squids do. Just before Hall grabbed for it, it turned dark-and Hall found himself squidless. He had grabbed a blob of ink-darkened water. The real squid, now light-colored, was safe at the far side...
Michael Biddle is the exhibit's most imaginative contributor. His pictures tend to be ghoulish or cartoonish. Charles Addams is a notable influence. The ink and wash study of a farmer looking at a hanging man struck this reviewer as one of his better works, in many ways reminiscent of Ben Shahn. The skating waiters are drawn with delicate line and much wit. Biddle's work can be characterized as naive and childish. This does not preclude some clever sketching. His main fault is sloppiness...