View Full Version : [News] Another giant squid stranding
myopsida
Apr 02, '09, 4:42pm
http://www.stuff.co.nz/science/2311472/Giant-no-match-for-colossal-cousin
A nice specimen - small enough to handle!
baldtankman
Apr 02, '09, 4:54pm
Looks like a job for..... no wait darn it that was last year. Nice picture in the Dominion this morning.
DWhatley
Apr 02, '09, 5:09pm
You can always wear a disguise (Steve's cod, uh I mean hairpiece and an lris leis should do the trick) and volunteer if you are missing being included in the action :sagrin:
Tintenfisch
Apr 02, '09, 5:13pm
(Steve's cod, uh I mean hairpiece
:shock:
baldtankman
Apr 02, '09, 5:16pm
You can always wear a disguise (Steve's cod, uh I mean hairpiece and an lris leis should do the trick) and volunteer if you are missing being included in the action :sagrin:
Scary thought that
Steve O'Shea
Apr 03, '09, 4:46pm
Was it really collected in a marine reserve (as in removed from the beach .... tsk tsk ...)? :oops:
myopsida
Apr 04, '09, 5:57am
Was it really collected in a marine reserve (as in removed from the beach .... tsk tsk ...)? :oops:
ummmm/ no comment
myopsida
Apr 04, '09, 5:59am
Scary thought that
about those waders.....I assume they are being well rinsed in the Ruamahunga?
baldtankman
Apr 05, '09, 4:54am
about those waders.....I assume they are being well rinsed in the Ruamahunga?
As often as the wind and rain will allow. A bit of a windy blast today.
chrono_war01
Apr 05, '09, 11:04am
If it was such a freshly dead squid, I wonder what the cause of death is?
Brock Fluharty
Apr 05, '09, 1:55pm
The title seems misleading...it says "Giant no match for colossal cousin", but at the bottom, it says that giants are longer. Then it says that no male colossals are known to have been found, but didn't they say that this one was a male? Maybe I'm misreading the article...
baldtankman
Apr 05, '09, 5:54pm
The title seems misleading...it says "Giant no match for colossal cousin", but at the bottom, it says that giants are longer. Then it says that no male colossals are known to have been found, but didn't they say that this one was a male? Maybe I'm misreading the article...
Help I can young skywalker.
Giant squid are longer mostly because of their two very long tentacles whereas Colossal squid are heavier and have a much boarder body..
No male Colossal squid have been found, this specimen is a Giant squid and is probably a male.
Helpful?
M:cyclops:
Brock Fluharty
Apr 05, '09, 6:58pm
Ahh ok. Thanks for clearing that up!
:)
Brock Fluharty
chrono_war01
Apr 14, '09, 6:46pm
Why are there no males found though? Any suggested reasons why in the science community?
The reasons why only females are found is that they so far have been the only gender found interested in devouring hooked Patagonian Toothfish; they're all bycatch (not sure whether the trawled Russian Specimen of the early eighties was caught whilst fishing for toothfish). This anecdotal "evidence" suggests different diets and/or predation habits for male and female, maybe based on a marked size difference between the genders. I am relatively certain that studying antarctic sperm whale gut content might turn up a male or two, unless they are a lot faster or at a very different position in the water column until such time that the urge to procreate makes both genders meet at some stage.
baldtankman
Apr 15, '09, 5:34pm
There is some unpublished genetic data that (in my humble opin) points to a mass spawning event for A. dux. So maybe the males and females live completely separate lives?
DWhatley
Apr 16, '09, 4:59am
... or maybe A. duxuess consumes A. dux if he gets close enough to mate :sagrin:
That has been documented...
baldtankman
Apr 16, '09, 5:10pm
... or maybe A. duxuess consumes A. dux if he gets close enough to mate :sagrin:
A post coital snack? Maybe...