Cerulean Super Star

A rather dazzling-looking Cephalope the Cerulean Superstar dazzles the west coast forest during the autumn breeding season. 

Super Stars are a genus of Cephalopes characterized by prominent sexual dimorphism. 

Where Cephalopes and Squeezebras have relatively uniform horns male Super Stars have very distinct five-pronged horns that vaguely resemble a star hence the name Super Star. 

The Cerulean Super Star is the most impressive of all Super Stars the size of an elk the horns and eye patches of the male are colored in a deep blue color that stands out strikingly. 

The horns are lined with color-changing chromatophores since the horns are modified from their 1st pair of tentacles the males can flush their horns to create a vibrant display of blue light to use in mating display or to intimidate rivals. 

Fights between males are rarely physical involving both males trying to out-intimidate one another.

 These bouts along with courtship displays can often look comical with the pulsing blue horns and the long deep flatulating calls that males produce. 

Female Super Stars are far less extravagant than the males with white horns and eye markings instead of deep blue and lacing the five-pronged horns of the male. 

Super Star calves of both genders resemble the female it isn't until males hit puberty that the flood of hormones causes the horns to grow out and to be flooded with phorcabilin turning there horns the characteristic shade of blue.