SQUID!
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Seems a shame almost that they felt the need to keep it.
I’m sure after they pulled it out of the deep water, it was already dead anyway. I’ve had grouper’s guts blow out of their mouths just reeling them off of a 100 ft deep reef. This squid was probably thousands of feet down.
BD is certainly right – if that squid was still moving, it wasn’t long for this world, invertebrate or not.
Hey Buzz –
I’ve heard those squid out in Baja have been known to eat people and therefore no one swims at night – any truth to that at all?
Zach
The locals down in Baja claim the Humboldts will definitely try to eat you. I think there are documented cases of squid attacking squid fishermen who have fallen in the water.
I saw a documentary that theorized that the squid are normally friendly and passive, and their aggressive attacking behavior is prompted by the stress of being fished heavily. The documentary writers claimed the squid are “gentle and curious” when away from the fishing boats. Maybe… but it seemed to me like the documentary was a little far fetched in bending over backwards to put a kind face on the squid. They were imparting some pretty sophisticated thought process to a mollusk. I wonder if the correlation might be more about whether the squid are in “feeding mode” (as they are when being fished). I wouldn’t want to fall in around a school of squid that had moved up into shallow water to feed on baitfish, regardless of whether fishing boats were around.
bd
A giant squid was actually caught back in December:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/12/061222-giant-squid.html-LH
That’s interesting, the same photo on the yahoo story originally posted is in the Nat Geo story about the giant squid.
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