Ventilation rate and arousal in the Octopus |
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Authors: | PR Boyle |
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Institution: | Department of Zoology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, AB9 2TN, Scotland |
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Abstract: | Observations on undisturbed, individually isolated, Octopus vulgaris Cuvier show that ventilation rate is strongly related to “arousal” or activation. Ventilation rate may be recorded visually by a screened observer or remotely, using carbon electrodes connected to a pen recorder via an impedance coupler to register the associated water movements in a small experimental chamber. The method allows a quantifiable behavioural characteristic to be measured objectively. It has been used to demonstrate that O. vulgaris responds to certain chemical stimuli in flowing sea water with a sharply increased ventilation rate. This result is taken to show distance chemoreception in this cephalopod. |
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