Unlike the octopus's arms, which that animal often uses to move and carry objects, the cuttlefish's eight arms are specialized for grasping prey after the cuttlefish captures it with its two ...

The book is also useful for the laboratory animal setting. Besides the interesting comparisons on physiology and anatomy between many species maintained in a laboratory, the diagrams and ...

Evidence for this function first came from studies of the organ's anatomy and its nerves as well ... this feature is unknown in any other extant animal. With the aid of the intracranial joint ...