POST YOUR COLOSSAL SQUID QUESTIONS HERE

[sorseress]

Ask him what wine he would choose.

 

[Clem]

Hi Sorseress,

Oh yes he would [eat one]. Besides, Colossals don't have ammoniacal flesh like Architeuthis does, so eating Mesonychoteuthis probably wasn't too unpleasant. (I recall that eating a bit of Archi has long been a rite of passage among its researchers.)

[I'll ask about pairing wine with Meso.]

At one point the white coats made several runs through removing the Meso cube from the freezer and putting it back in. Unless they were practicing their moves, it looked like they were trying to give the film crew lots of coverage for the documentary. Everyone looked wiped afterwards.

Clem

 

[esquid]

activity on camera 2

 

[sorseress]

Hi Sorseress,

Oh yes he would [eat one]. Besides, Colossals don't have ammoniacal flesh like Architeuthis does, so eating Mesonychoteuthis probably wasn't too unpleasant. (I recall that eating a bit of Archi has long been a rite of passage among its researchers.)

Guess I should be reading more of the articles and stuff, because I thought they too were ammoniacal. Surprising the fishing crews don't take them back and harvest the flesh instead of presenting it to researchers,, or would it deteriorate too quickly for that?

 

[monty]

apparently, there's some question about the ammoniacal or not issue: Steve's preliminary fixing notes says "should the colossal squid prove to be ammoniacal"-- of course, maybe that's a cut-and-paste error from a document before he'd examined the 2003 specimen.

I've seen Ob eat sushi, but not such... exotic sushi....

 

[tonmo]

activity on camera 2

This is the real deal! On now:

> Dissection table
http://www.r2.co.nz/20080427/camera-2.asx

 

[sorseress]

I am so glad you started this site Tony!

 

[Clem]

Yeah, me too, Tony.

On Camera 4, Ob just posed for the photographer with Archi's tentacle around his neck.

 

[tonmo]

Me too!

Yeah, look at OB go! He is right in there mixing it up -- talk about a front row seat!

 

[sorseress]

I'm not only jealous, I'm impressed!

 

[sorseress]

Now all we need is for the infamous ND clipping to make an appearance!

 

[monty]

indeed

I don't see a lot of new folks posting, though... have you checked if the traffic is up?

 

[sorseress]

Only 151 people viewing.

 

[monty]

Is that Olaf taking hires pictures of the small colossal that he's going to post any moment now, perhaps, that I see on camera-3?

 

[sorseress]

That's ice, right?