Abstract
When the Hawaiian bobtail squid rises from the sand each evening to hunt, it swims cloaked from detection by predators and prey because it casts no moonlight shadow, a trick it owes to compartments full of glowing bacteria on its underside. It tunes these mini-floodlights to the right intensity using light sensors on its back, adjusting a shutter on its body to match the moonlight perfectly (1).
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