The deceptive capabilities of cuttlefish has been known since ancient Greece. The 2C AD author of hunting and fishing books Oppian wrote extensively about the 'cunning devices' of cuttlefish, as well as octopuses, which he considers to be par excellennce foxes of the sea.<p><pre><code> Yea, the crafty Cuttle-fish also has found a cunning manner of
hunting. From her head? grow long slender branches, like locks of
hair, wherewith as with lines she draws and captures fish, prone in
the sand and coiled beneath her shell.
They have seated in their heads a dark muddy fluid blacker than pitch,
a mysterious drug causing a watery cloud, which is their natural
defence against destruction. When fear seizes them, immediately they
discharge the dusky drops thereof and the cloudy fluid stains and
obscures all around the paths of the sea and ruins all the view ; and
they straightway through the turbid waters easily escape man or haply
mightier fish. ... Such are the cunning devices‘ of fishes.</code></pre>