My Shot

Pete Atkinson & Anita Verde & Peter Marshall & Bert de Wit · Issue 122, Sep/Oct 2021 · pp. 44–47

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My Shot 1 Do you have a favourite shot (or two) with a short story? If so, please e mail the image and text to peter@uwpmag.com and yours could be the next My Shot It seems it’s all brains over brawn when it comes to cuttlefish love. In the shallow waters of a small bay at Point Lowly in South Australia, the Australian giant cuttlefish (Sepia apama)—the largest of their kind, have abandoned their typically solitary lives to gather in their tens of thousands. They’re here for one reason - to dance the dance of love at the only mass spawning aggregation of cuttlefish on planet earth. It’s not known why they choose this particular location, or where they even come from, but each year from late May to early August they arrive along this same small stretch of coastline. As we descend into the icy shallow waters, thousands of intelligent aliens hover above the seagrass meadows, all in pursuit …