date of the "Night of the Colors" is tight!
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Chronicle The unusual spectacle that is taking place only at new moon. In a single night, which seems to be as agreed, there are millions of colorful little squid a few isolated rocky islands are in the Southern Ocean and organize what is commonly called "Night of the colors" has become known, namely, a mating ritual of astonishing beauty and grace .
diamond squid are not larger than six inches, but what they lack in size they make up with a palette of color and light games. Fluorescent micro-organisms on the skin to ensure that the diamond squid can emit quite complex light patterns and signals, and especially during courtship seem small animals to become real artists. In the "Night of colors" to collect diamond squid, the lines have come up to two hundred kilometers from the coast of the needle riffs and cover their bodies with the entire ocean floor goes a long way. Down there is also the partner search. The males can see it a whole repertoire of artistic light organs as they wind their way to find the more subdued bluish females over coral reefs, Seewiesen or rocks. If a male and female struck the desired captured, the colors go but only really going on. Intertwined starts a real competition to brilliant light games that are all the more intense the longer a couple copulating. This is also the one moment that makes the appeal to observers. The dark water is now evident from an octopus rug in the colors of the rainbow! To lamps or other light sources can be seen as snorkelers or divers here do without, even from the deck of a boat you can admire the glow in shallower waters of the sea. Towards the end of the night the lights show ebbs slowly, until the couple separated in the morning. Males and females make themselves back on the way back, and a few weeks later the young to Welt kommen.
"Die Nacht der Farben ist einmalig auf diesem Planeten!", stellt Gherr beeindruckt fest. "Unseren Berechnungen nach wird sie diesmal in der kommenden Neumondnacht vom 10. Alpha stattfinden." Diverse Reiseveranstalter bieten geführte Bootstouren an, man kann aber auch mit einem Privatschiff zu den Paarungsgründen segeln. Wichtig ist es dabei, gewisse Auflagen zu beachten. So dürfen die Tiere nicht gestört oder gar gejagt werden und Taucher sollten eine gewisse Distanz wahren.
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