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Friday Squid Blogging: Penguins Fight over Squid

Watch this video of gentoo penguins fighting over a large squid.

This underwater brawl was captured on a video camera taped to the back of the second penguin, revealing this unexpected foraging behaviour for the first time. “This is completely new behaviour, not just for gentoo penguins but for penguins in general,” says Jonathan Handley, a doctoral student at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.

Posted on December 18, 2015 at 4:11 PM • View Comments

Friday Squid Blogging: Rare Octopus Squid Video from Hawaii

Neat:

While the Dana octopus squid may lack a squid’s trademark trailing tentacles, it makes up for them in spectacular lighting equipment, with two of its muscular arms ending in lidded light organs called “photophores.” About the size of lemons, these photophores are the largest known light-producing organs in the animal kingdom, said Mike Vecchione, a zoologist at the NOAA National Systematics Laboratory at the Smithsonian Institution and a curator of cephalopods at the National Museum of Natural History, both in Washington, D.C.

As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.

Posted on December 11, 2015 at 4:02 PM • View Comments

Friday Squid Blogging: North Korean Squid Fisherman Found Dead in Boats

I don’t know if you’ve been following the story of the boats full of corpses that have been found in Japanese waters:

Over the past two months, at least 12 wooden boats have been found adrift or on the coast, carrying chilling cargo—the decaying bodies of 22 people, police and Japan’s coast guard said.

All the bodies were “partially skeletonized”—two were found without heads—and one boat contained six skulls, the coast guard said. The first boat was found in October, then a series of boats were found in November.

Writing on the boats suggests that they are from North Korea, and there’s other evidence that they strayed into Japanese waters hunting squid:

Squid fishing equipment found in the boats suggest that the bodies could be of fisherman from food-short North Korea who have been increasingly entering Japanese waters to hunt squid…

As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.

Posted on December 4, 2015 at 4:22 PM • View Comments

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Spawning in South Australian Waters

Divers are counting them:

Squid gather and mate with as many partners as possible, then die, in an annual ritual off Rapid Head on the Fleurieu Peninsula, south of Adelaide.

Department of Environment divers will check the waters and gather data on how many eggs are left by the spawning squid.

No word on how many are expected. Ten? Ten billion? I have no idea.

As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.

Posted on November 20, 2015 at 4:30 PM • View Comments

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