Colossal Squid in NZ Caught

[CaptainCrunch]

I always thought there was a lot of reality to the old sea stories that we heard about, and its likely that there are things that we haven't seen yet living in the depths of the ocean.

"Here there be Monsters", is a map marking on an old 18th century naval map that my dad owns.

[Superfraggle]

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

I'd rather we worry about the thousands of dolphins being hunted by drive-hunting. That is just painful to see.

Sorry but I relate more to our intelligent mammalian cousins.

What, you mean you can only spare sympathy for one species at a time? I'm in...let's worry about the dolphins too!

[icarus]

Here is the club avec hooks on the end of its tentacle. Frightening.

[Hack&Lube]

Originally Posted by icarus

Here is the club avec hooks

Sounds like a cool place, how much is cover?

[Hack&Lube]

Originally Posted by Superfraggle

What, you mean you can only spare sympathy for one species at a time? I'm in...let's worry about the dolphins too!

Well, I certainly have no sympathy for most insect species, even if they are vital to the cute and furries that eat them.

But the Colossal Squid has the largest eyes in the Animal Kingdom. I can imagine in Colossoal Squid with sparking cute/teary eyes making me like them.

[Frank the Tank]

Originally Posted by I-Hate-Hulse

Me too. I attribute it to all the crappy CBC Captain Nemo Cartoons I watched as a kid:





Rest assured, if I linked the theme song for this damned show you'll have it stuck in your head for 24 hrs...

So here it is! Link!

(man that would be been good for the Guess the 80's Music thread)

I hate you so much right now......

I was OBSESSED with that show as a kid. Drove my parents nuts. I tried to sign up for Scuba lessons when I was 8 years old.

[Canada 02]

bump. so hte squid had been frozen for the last year, and now the scientists are thawing it to examine it, dissect, collect tissue samples etc and it's all being werbcast for us to see. Right now it's just being thawed; the dissection happens tommorrow

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servl...y/Science/home

webcast links found here

http://www.r2.co.nz/20080427/camera-1.asx

http://www.tepapa.govt.nz/TePapa/Eng...ColossalSquid/

[onetwo_threefour]

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

Well, I certainly have no sympathy for most insect species, even if they are vital to the cute and furries that eat them.

But the Colossal Squid has the largest eyes in the Animal Kingdom. I can imagine in Colossoal Squid with sparking cute/teary eyes making me like them.

Squid are remarkably intelligent as well. Squid and octopi are the most intelligent invertebrates, and if I remember correctly their brain sizes are comparable to those of a house cat. (Although comparable brain size is not necessarily a direct indicator of comparable intelligence)

Ahh.. here's the article I was remembering (seems consistent with what I remember from my old neuropsych texts)

http://discovermagazine.com/2003/oct/feateye

That Steve was named Steve was also revealing: Octopuses are the only animals, other than mammals like cuddly seals, that aquarium workers bother to name. So Anderson, Seattle's lead invertebrate biologist, began to wonder: If keepers recognize octopuses as individuals, how much difference is there among individual octopuses? Might these bizarre-looking mollusks have personalities? And if so, how else might their evolution have converged with ours across a billion-year chasm?
Meanwhile, in the waters off Bermuda, Canadian comparative psychologist Jennifer Mather was asking similar questions. Mather had observed an Octopus vulgaris, the common Atlantic octopus, catch several crabs and return to its rock den to eat them. Afterward it emerged, gathered four stones, propped these at the den entrance and, thus shielded, took a safe siesta. The strategy suggested qualities that weren't supposed to occur in the lower orders: foresight, planning, perhaps even tool use.

[Russic]

I'd be more bothered if they were specifically hunting the squid. It was nearly dead when they brought it up, so releasing it probably would have done little good. There is scientific value to it, so I see nothing wrong with what they did. Personally I find many other practices far more bothersome (like shark hunting derby's).

[GreenLantern]

I for one welcome our new Octi-overlords.

[HotHotHeat]

Over under until the inevitable hollywood film titled "Colossal"? I'm thinking a mix between x-files and jaws.

[Vena]

Those things creep me out.

[driveway]

Originally Posted by Russic

Personally I find many other practices far more bothersome (like shark hunting derby's).

Seen Sharkwater yet? I just watched it the other day and, while I already knew about the savagery that is shark-fin soup and had stopped eating at restaurants that had it on the menu about two years ago, I think I've come to the conclusion that I need to cut fish out of my diet entirely. Which sucks, because I love sushi.

[Rhettzky]

I wonder if they have a deep fryer big enough... mmmmmmm... squidtastic.

[Locke]

Well, I for one am glad that there is now 1 fewer of these fearsome beasts in our fair waters.

Wont someone think of the children?

To the Buffet line!!!

[Teh_Bandwagoner]

Alright...who was the idiot who wasted 20 mana and casted Lv 5 Leviathan before entering battle?

[Hack&Lube]

It'd be great if it suddenly came to life live on the webcam as a collosal zomboid squid and just thrashed everybody about.

[icarus]

Dissection to commence at Miskatonic University.

/obscure reference

[Sainters7]

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

It'd be great if it suddenly came to life live on the webcam as a collosal zomboid squid and just thrashed everybody about.

Ya I guess it does look like the alien off Independence Day too, from that scene. If it does happen, Bill Pullman should be elected president immediately.

[burn_this_city]

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

It'd be great if it suddenly came to life live on the webcam as a collosal zomboid squid and just thrashed everybody about.

Haha thats what i was thinking when i started watchin the webcast..