First-ever observations of a live giant squid in the wild-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

First-ever observations of a live giant squid in the wild

Published:2005-09-29 Issue:1581 Volume:272 Page:2583-2586
ISSN:0962-8452
Container-title:Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
language:en
Short-container-title:Proc. R. Soc. B.

Author:

Kubodera Tsunemi¹,Mori Kyoichi²

Affiliation:

1. Department of Zoology, National Science Museum3-23-1 Hyakunin-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-0073, Japan

2. Ogasawara Whale Watching Association, Aza Higashi-machiChichijima, Ogasawara, Tokyo 100-2101, Japan

Abstract

The giant squid, Architeuthis , is renowned as the largest invertebrate in the world and has featured as an ominous sea monster in novels and movies. Considerable efforts to view this elusive creature in its deep-sea habitat have been singularly unsuccessful. Our digital camera and depth recorder system recently photographed an Architeuthis attacking bait at 900 m off Ogasawara Islands in the North Pacific. Here, we show the first wild images of a giant squid in its natural environment. Recovery of a severed tentacle confirmed both identification and scale of the squid (greater than 8 m). Architeuthis appears to be a much more active predator than previously suspected, using its elongate feeding tentacles to strike and tangle prey.

Publisher

The Royal Society

Subject

General Agricultural and Biological Sciences,General Environmental Science,General Immunology and Microbiology,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology,General Medicine

Link

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspb.2005.3158

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