Talk:Giant squid
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Is this what (nameless person who took out the stuff about the "right-angled" squids [Science, v294 p2505, 21 Dec 2001]) means by "talk"? Is there any way to do this off-line - I return ashore in a couple of days where I've more important things to do than wait 20 minutes for pages to open? A.Karley email the hotmail account (should be guessable) if there's no mailing list functions on this thing.
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it has been known to attack and eat whales
Bolocks. Most proofs of giant squid existance came from sperm whale stomachs before intact specimens where found dead on shore...
-- JidGom 14:07, 26 Aug 2003 (UTC)
I've long suspected that octopuses, and moreover, squid, were the next big toolmaker species on earth. They have the brains and the physical endowment to do so...
Besides octopuses, I'd really like to see some of the larger squid, especially Architeuthis, the Giant Squid, playing around and demonstrating their intelligence.
An large octopus' brain is about the size of a dog's, whereas the Giant Squid's is around the size of an elephant's (which is very very large. Though considering the architecture of a cephalopod brain and body, I'd assume that the squid is a more able toolmaker than the elephant, which has only one opposable 'limb')...
Have you ever wondered why exactly they're so elusive? Perhaps it's due to their intelligence?
(I've gone as far as wondering whether they already exist in their equivalent to the Paleolithic age and already do use tools of some kind... Scientists currently suspect that they're solitary, but I have my doubts about this claim...)
(I don't appreciate much how they refer to them as 'the lowly mollusk'... Hopefully our further knowledge about squid and octopus intelligence won't prompt us to completely fuck up their society like some older species apparently did/is doing to ours...)
- It could be because cephalopods typically have such a short life-span. Intelligence isn't the only requisite for toolmaking. Longevity and a certain degree of socialization both are factors in toolmaking. - UtherSRG 13:10, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Interesting... it shows how we can have very advance technology as a society but still cant see some animals alive.
"Adam Siefkas, Ph.D., is credited with having revolutionized the study of the giant squid."
- - without elaboration, this doesn't seem relevant. I suspect the presence of one of the good doctor's admiring pupils. User:Palefire
- I suspect you are correct, and I'll remove that line. - UtherSRG 11:48, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
One had best update the 'the search for the giant squid...' bit, as they have indeed captured live young now and they are in captivity. ^_^ score one for us. I saw it on Discovery
Giant Squids are sweet
Giant Squids are sweet, and i'm pretty sure that they have the real ultimate power. Cephalopods in general are pretty sweet, too. Thanks for having such a nice resource here.
Maximum size?
"... recent estimates put the maximum size at 10 m (33 ft) for males and 13 m (43 ft) for females ... However, there are reported claims of specimens of up to 20 m (66 ft), but none have been scientifically documented. ... A 17 m (55 ft) giant squid specimen washed ashore in Glover's Harbour, Newfoundland on November 2, 1878."
So does that last report not count as as scientifically documented, or what? —wwoods 17:59, 27 May 2005 (UTC)