how does a giant squid eat?
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What do Giant Squid eat? Unfortunately, the giant squid Architeuthis has not been studied enough to make a comprehensive diet. From the few that have been dissected though, it was discovered that they would eat sperm whales that dive deep underwater.
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- The giant squid is thought to be the largest or second largest living invertebrate, or animal without a backbone. (The colossal squid is most likely longer but not heavier than the giant squid.) Not much is known about giant squids.
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- The age of a giant squid can be determined by growth rings in the statocyst's statolith, similar to determining the age of a tree by counting its rings. Much of what is known about giant squid age is based on estimates of the growth rings and from undigested beaks found in the stomachs of sperm whales.
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- Scallops filter plankton from the water internally. Squid eat small fish which eat plankton, and even the mighty humpback whale dines on small fish which eat plankton. Higher on the food chain, sharks eat fish, which eat smaller fish, which eat plankton. Without zooplankton, small fish would starve, and without them, the larger fish would starve. So, nearly everything in the ocean somehow depends on the zooplankton.
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- The number of species of giant squid is not known, although the general consensus amongst researchers is that there are at least three species, one in the Atlantic Ocean (Architeuthis dux), one in the Southern Ocean (A. sanctipauli) and at least one in the northern Pacific Ocean (A. martensi).
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- Scallops filter plankton from the water internally. Squid eat small fish which eat plankton, and even the mighty humpback whale dines on small fish which eat plankton. Higher on the food chain, sharks eat fish, which eat smaller fish, which eat plankton. Without zooplankton, small fish would starve, and without them, the larger fish would starve. So, nearly everything in the ocean somehow depends on the zooplankton. But the zooplankton eat the phytoplankton, so ultimately, the drifting phytoplankton keep the entire ecosystem in the ocean going.
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Colossal Squid While little is known about the life of this creature, it is believed to hunt prey such as chaetognatha and squid in the deep ocean using bioluminescence. Based on capture depths of a few specimens, as well as beaks found in sperm whale stomachs, the adult squid ranges at least to a depth of 2200 m, while juveniles can go as deep as 1000 m.
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Giant Squid Giant squid mostly eat deep water fishes and other squids -- including other giant squids. Once prey is caught by the suckers and teeth on the feeding tentacles, the squid will rein it in and bring it towards its beak with its eight arms.
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- So, if every sperm whale on earth devoured an average of one giant squid per month, that means 4.3 million would be offed annually. But some experts think this figure is way too low. Every single day, male whales put away 300 to 400 squid of various species, while females consume an outrageous 700 to 800 squid.
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Giant Squid In the Happy Feet franchise. The Giant Squid appears for a short in Happy Feet Two when the Doomberg arrives at Emperor-Land and make the squid hide in a hole. The Giant Squid also appears as a boss in level 30 of Happy Feet Two: The Video Game.
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- The squid's diet includes fish, crustaceans and other squid. However, because there are around 300 species of squid in 25 families, individual diets will vary. While the majority of squid are no more than 60 cm long, giant squid have been recorded as reaching 15 meters in length.
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Squid as food Fried squid (fried calamari, calamari) is a dish in Mediterranean cuisine. It consists of batter-coated, deep fried squid, fried for less than two minutes to prevent toughness. It is served plain, with salt and lemon on the side. In North America, it is a staple in seafood restaurants.
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The Biggest Giant Squid Ever Caught on Camera ? [FULL DOCUMENTARY] Giant squid can grow to a tremendous size due to deep-sea gigantism: recent estimates put the maximum size at 13 m (43 ft) for females and 10 m (33 ft) for males from the posterior fins to the tip of the two long tentacles (second only to the colossal squid at an estimated 14 m (46 ft), one of the largest living organisms).
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Lowly squid's behavior may yield clues to human brain When a newborn squid is frightened, its brain sends an electrical signal through the giant axons, causing the mantle muscles to automatically contract and discharge a jet of water. To gain voluntary control of its jet propulsion, the adult brain fires the small axon network first, bypassing the giant axons.
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The Biggest Giant Squid Ever Caught on Camera ? [FULL DOCUMENTARY] The giant squid is the second-largest mollusc and the one of the largest of all extant invertebrates. It is only exceeded by the colossal squid, Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni, which may have a mantle nearly twice as long.
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What do Giant Squid eat? The following is taken in its entirety from that entry dealing with Feeding: Recent studies have shown giant squid feed on deep-sea fish and other squid species.[16] They catch prey using the two tentacles, gripping it with serrated sucker rings on the ends.
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Squid Squid. The squid is a marine cephalopod similar to the octopus. Like all other cephalopods, squid have a distinct head, bilateral symmetry, a mantle, and arms. Squid, like cuttlefish, have eight arms and two tentacles arranged in pairs.Some species of squid are known to have 10 arms!he Colossal squid that lives in the deep waters of the Pacific Ocean has been known to grow to 14 metres long! Squid are an excellent and therefore common food source for a variety a different animal species in the water but also those predators on land. Squid predators include sharks, penguins, seals and humans.
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Stuffed Squid Stuffed Squid with Sauted shrimp, tentacles and vegetables like sweet turnips, celery and tomatoes. You can put any stuffing you prefer, from ground meat, seafoods to any vegetables you want. Then after Sauteing and stuffing, your choice of frying or baking.
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- The eight arms of the Colossal Squid also carry fixed hooks which the Giant Squid does not have. Both the Colossal Squid and the Giant Squid live in deep water, perhaps as much as 3,300 feet (1000 meters) or more beneath the surface, where there is very little light.To help them hunt their prey in the darkness at that depth they have extremely large eyes.he eight arms of the Colossal Squid also carry fixed hooks which the Giant Squid does not have. Both the Colossal Squid and the Giant Squid live in deep water, perhaps as much as 3,300 feet (1000 meters) or more beneath the surface, where there is very little light.
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- Those of the giant squids reach a length of 10 meters for the tentacles, and 3 meters for the arms. The tentacles are what are used to catch prey. The lower surface of these arms is covered with two rows of suckers. The tentacles of squid and octopi do have a difference. Squids have extra armature-hooks on the sucker rings. This allows for them to grasp hold of their prey.
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Giant Marine Clams Like all clams in freshwater or marine species, the Tridacna species are also filter feeders, and their food of choice is phytoplankton (floating algae cells). One can see when a giant clam is in feeding mode when their ‘mouth’ opens and the feeding gills are displayed.
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What is the largest squid on record? Answer Wiki. The Colossal Squid, Mesonychoteuthis Hamiltoni. When beaks of them were first found, they were thought to belong to the Giant Squid, Architeuthis Dux. The first ever evidence of a Colossal Squid was in 1925, when fisherman found an unusually large Giant Squid beak within a Sperm Whale. Much much later, Arctic Researchers pulled up a living Colossal Squid at 15 feet in length.
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Colossal Squid Unlike the giant squid, whose arms and tentacles only have suckers lined with small teeth, the colossal squid's limbs are also equipped with sharp hooks: some swiveling, others three-pointed. Its body is wider and stouter, and therefore heavier, than that of the giant squid.
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- Colossal Squid vs. Giant Squid . The Colossal Squid and the Giant Squid are similar in many ways. Both creatures have a cone-shaped mantle topped by fins at one end.
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Just How Big Are The Eyes Of A Giant Squid? giant and colossal squids can be more than 40 feet long if you measure all the way out to the tip of their two long feeding tentacles but it s their eyes that are truly huge the size of basketballs now scientists say these squids may have the biggest eyes in the animal kingdom because they need to detect a major predator the sperm whale as it moves toward them through the underwater darkness
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Giant Squid in this photo released by tsunemi kubodera a researcher with japan s national science museum a giant squid attacking a bait squid is pulled up by his research team off the ogasawara islands south of tokyo on december 4 2006