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For example, this shrimp releases its bioluminescent chemicals into the water just the way a squid or an octopus would release an ink cloud.
This little squid is called the fire shooter because of its ability to do this.
And that was a Humboldt squid, a juvenile Humboldt squid, about three feet long.
The vampire squid.
Mike deGruy was also invited, and he spoke with great passion about his love of the ocean, and he also talked to me about applying my approach to something he's been involved with for a very long time, which is the hunt for the giant squid.
I gave a talk on unobtrusive viewing and optical luring of deep sea squid in which I emphasized the importance of using quiet, unobtrusive platforms for exploration.
So for the deep sea squid hunt, I proposed using an optical lure attached to a camera platform with no thrusters, no motors, just a battery-powered camera, and the only illumination coming from red light that's invisible to most deep-sea animals that are adapted to see primarily blue.
What was not mentioned in the Discovery documentary was that the bait squid that Dr. Kubodera used, a one-meter long diamondback squid had a light attached to it, a squid jig of the type that longline fishermen use, and I think it was this light that brought the giant in.
Squid have taught us about how our neurons communicate, and the horseshoe crab has taught us about how our eyes work.
It's a close relative of squid and octopus, and males have a hectocotylus.
In the next bit, we're going to see a couple squid.
Now, here's a male on the left and a female on the right, and the male has managed to split his coloration so the female only always sees the kinder, gentler squid in him.
For example, it's eaten by lanternfish, the lanternfish are eaten by squid, the squid are eaten by tuna, and the tuna are eaten by us.
You hear about giant squid and things like that, but some of these animals get up to be approximately 140, 160 feet long.
Here's a squid and a camouflage pattern.
Vibrio fischeri lives in this squid.
And the reason the squid is willing to put up with these shenanigans is because it wants that light.
And the squid is nocturnal, so during the day, it buries itself in the sand and sleeps.
What the squid has developed is a shutter that can open and close over the specialized light organ housing the bacteria.
And it opens and closes the shutter so the amount of light coming out of the bottom, which is made by the bacterium, exactly matches how much light hits the squid's back, so the squid doesn't make a shadow.
But then if you think about it, this squid has this terrible problem, because it's got this dying, thick culture of bacteria, and it can't sustain that.
But, of course, the squid doesn't care, it's asleep in the sand.
And as the day goes by, the bacteria double, they release the molecule, and then light comes on at night, exactly when the squid wants it.
A lot of them can release their luciferin or luferase in the water just the way a squid or an octopus will release an ink cloud.
So, imagine a great white shark and a giant squid in the same bathroom.
"Destroy All Planets" winds up settling for 'destroy all Tokyo' by film's end, as a space monster resembling a giant squid falls to the reptilian furnace known as Gamera.
A "40 foot long" giant mutant squid with five tentacles, razor fangs and the ability to reproduce it's own cells terrorizes a small Florida town.
The full page ad in the local arts & entertainment weekly exalted The Squid and the Whale as, "Marvelous...Fresh & Fierce...Exhilarating...Sharply Comical", but it is none of those things.
What could the film THE SQUID AND THE WHALE be about?
"It's an ambiguous ending," Walt Berkman (Jesse Eisenberg) tells his slow-witted girlfriend Sophie, and while he's talking about Kafka's "Metamorphosis," he could easily be referencing "The Squid and the Whale."
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