Kendra C Buresch, Noelle D Huget, William C Brister, Elaine Y Zhou, Abraham S Lineaweaver, Chloe Rifai, Jinyang Hu, Zoe E Stevenson, Jean G Boal, Roger T Hanlon
Octopuses integrate visual, chemical and tactile sensory information while foraging and feeding in complex marine habitats. The respective roles of these modes are of interest ecologically, neurobiologically, and for development of engineered soft robotic arms. While vision guides their foraging path, benthic octopuses primarily search "blindly" with their arms to find visually hidden prey amidst rocks, crevices and coral heads. Each octopus arm is lined with hundreds of suckers that possess a combination of chemo- and mechanoreceptors to distinguish prey...
March 12, 2024: Journal of Comparative Physiology. A, Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology