Giant Squid photographed!

• Shigemichi Take

  29 Sep 05, 14:38

  Yummy. Ika sushi
  
  oishi neh!
• c0ol_blu3z

  29 Sep 05, 14:50

  heehee.. one of these sotong can feed me for a year
• the Bear

  29 Sep 05, 16:04

  octopus are intelligent...
  
  cuttlefish can recognise people...
  
  squid are stupid tho'
  
  not sure about nautilus.. they're rare...
  
  always been fascinated with cephalopods.. especially the giant ones like the Giant Squid.. and recently, they found another species bigger than the normal Giant Squid and they named it the Colossal Squid
  
  then there's the fabled Giant Octopus too
  
  i wonder if they'll ever find that.. i hope they finally do
  
  

  Originally posted by Wanda:

  That's only in the movies. They actually wrap their tentacles around an object to get a sense of the object, but they aren't aggressive. Divers can tell you that they can swim around cuttlefish quite peacefully.
  
  Some foreign experiments have shown that cuttlefish are quite smart, e.g. they know how to open a bottle to get the food inside.

• carpe diem jur

  29 Sep 05, 16:12

  WoAh !!!!!! So cuteeeee !!!
  
  *slurpppp*
  
  Yummy~~!
• Wanda

  29 Sep 05, 16:32

  A cuttlefish my friend met on a diving trip. Doesn't it look wise?
  
  
• the Bear

  29 Sep 05, 17:10

  some are friendly
  
  
• BadzMaro

  29 Sep 05, 17:24

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  some are friendly
  
  

  I wanna see u guys shake hands with one of those mega huge ones..
• skeujin

  29 Sep 05, 17:40

  pics giv new meaning to the term 'blur sotong'
• poon cho tang

  29 Sep 05, 21:54

  
  
  Reuters - Wed Sep 28, 7:35 AM ET
  An undated handout combination image released September 27, 2005 by the Royal Society shows the first photographs of a live giant squid in its natural environment, taken by Japanese scientists in the Pacific Ocean. (Royal Society/Handout/Reuters)
• poon cho tang

  29 Sep 05, 21:55

  
  
  AFP/EFE/File - Tue Sep 27, 7:15 PM ET
  Biologists take measurements of a giant squid in 2001. Japanese zoologists have made the first recording of a live giant squid, one of the strangest and most elusive creatures in the world.(AFP/EFE/File/Miguel Riopa)
• Wanda

  30 Sep 05, 09:20

  I'm sorry to read that the giant Squid broke one tentacle...cannot grow back already. Damaged all bec of humans.
• alexkusu

  30 Sep 05, 09:25

  Alright.. me goin fishing this weekend...
  
  I have a higher chance of finding it where Im at
• the Bear

  30 Sep 05, 10:33

  it's a cephalopod.. they can regenerate their lost limbs
  
  

  Originally posted by Wanda:

  I'm sorry to read that the giant Squid broke one tentacle...cannot grow back already. Damaged all bec of humans.

• ditzy

  30 Sep 05, 10:56

  Their severed limb will regenerate into a new squid.
• specfore

  11 Oct 05, 21:26

  Actually the level of ammonia in the giant squid is reported to be very high. Therefore the flesh is not edible in large quantities --- it may poison you.
  
  Even in small bites, it will taste awful.
• Madden

  28 Oct 05, 04:02

  
• matrixeg

  25 Nov 05, 20:16

  waaa sotong
  i like
  very tasty.