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<div align="center"><b>The Friends of the Cape Cod Museum of Natural
History<br>
Presents<br>
<i>Color Change & Patterning in Ocean Animals: <br>
Science, Art and Technology <br>
</i></b>with<b> Roger Hanlon<br>
<br>
Tuesday, March 11, 2014 at 1:30pm<br>
Cape Cod Museum of Natural History<br>
869 Rte 6A, Main Street, Brewster, MA 02631<br>
508-896-3867 x 133
<a href="http://www.ccmnh.org/" eudora="autourl">www.ccmnh.org<br>
</a> <br>
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 19, 2014 <br>
Contact: Gayle Williams 508-385-2192 or
<a href="mailto:gck1@comcast.net">gck1@comcast.net</a> <br>
<i>Color Change & Patterning in Ocean Animals: Science, Art and
Technology with Roger Hanlon<br>
</i></b></div>
Roger T. Hanlon, a dynamic speaker, will give a talk called "Color
Change and Patterning in Ocean Animals; Science, Art and Technology"
providing the lay public with answers to questions that first began to
bubble to the surface when he was an undergraduate, visiting his brother
in Panama. He was snorkeling when he was startled by a chance encounter
with a Panamanian octopus. If he took his eye off of it for a moment, he
lost sight of it, which made Hanlon think, "This is really cool. How
can this animal do this, changing its pattern as it goes? So I went back
to college just mesmerized. And I'm still mesmerized by it," he
said.<br>
Roger T. Hanlon, is the Sr. Scientist at the Marine Biological
Laboratory, Woods Hole; Director, Program in Sensory Physiology &
Behavior at MBL; and Professor (MBL) of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,
Brown University. and is one of the leading authorities on the camouflage
behavior of cephalopods-a class of mollusks that includes squid, octopus
and cuttlefish.<br>
1:00 Friends Meeting<br>
1:30 Talk by Roger T. Hanlon<br>
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