Tentacles usually don't have suckers all the way down, only on the upper area (furthest from the mouth) called the club, arms have suckers tip to mouth
mucktopus;170276 said:This is definitely possible. It's also possible for the whole tentacle to be pulled off say, if it got caught, tried to writhe free, attracted other hungry squids, and ripped itself free to avoid being cannibalized.
Also - in comparison to market squid, Dosidicus would have it on size alone. A whole Doryteuthis tentacle could pass through the biggest Dosidicus tentacle club rings.
ob;170719 said:It could, but likely wouldn't. Climbing is a movement "program" not needed in daily life, as opposed to Octopus species, so unlikely to occur in squid. The tentacles know one thing only, "shoot out, grab, retract". The arms are "grab/envelop", most of the rest of behaviour is centered around the three basics: "om nom nom nom", "run to the hills!" and "put Barry White on"