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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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For centuries, scientists and sailors have know that sperm whales hunted the “giant squid”, Architeuthis dux. Whale bodies are scarred with huge sucked marks and gashes from Archituthus. But the battles take place in deep water, far beyond where humans can easily travel…

Ответ для Rebecca R Helm

As two hulking predators, the confrontations are likely violent. Here, for possibly the first time EVER, we get to see the spoils of a sperm whale victory, as this sperm whale returns to the surface waters off the coast of Mauritius with a massive squid in its maw...

Ответ для Rebecca R Helm

You can see billows of black ink still flowing, a last battle cry from the battered squid… When I saw these videos, shared by @lud_adventure on Instagram, I immediately reached out to Smithsonian expert Dr. Michael Vecchione…

Ответ для Rebecca R Helm

…who confirmed the squid ID as a true giant squid, Architeuthis dux. Next, I reached out to an expert on sperm whales at NOAA, who was also blown away and agreed she’d NEVER seen anything like this! This planet is a phenomenal place.

Ответ для Rebecca R Helm

So basically this painting by @brandonbird.bsky.social is scientifically accurate?

Ответ для James

If you hadn't posted it I was gonna.

Ответ для James

For what passes for science in the US now? Absolutely, it's scientifically accurate.

Ответ для FatGuyOnABike🔒

Please read the whole thread and educate yourself

Ответ для Rebecca R Helm

Amazing!! @robcruickshank.bsky.social Giant squid CONFIRMED! Rob made many clay sculptures of these epic battles when we were kids!

Ответ для Rebecca R Helm

Its official- when things go bump in the dark deep- the sperm whales bump the fuck back!

Ответ для Rebecca R Helm

Hast du bestimmt schon gesehen @meertext.bsky.social ?! Wow!

Ответ для Rebecca R Helm

WOW!!! Thanks so much for sharing this!!! Where were this filmed? The sperm whale seems not to be a large bull, but a smaller animal (young or/and female), so perhaps the squid-show took place in warmer waters?

Ответ для Meertext

Mauritius!

Ответ для Meertext

I read somewhere else that it may be a mother and that the other whale (seen for a few seconds at the start of the video) may be a calf she's teaching to hunt.

Ответ для Rebecca R Helm

Yo, very cool thread, thank you for sharing and teaching!

Ответ для Rebecca R Helm

There is still so much we have never seen.

Ответ для Rebecca R Helm

This is amazing, but we still do not have access to observing the lives of these creatures deep underwater--the actual battles themselves, other feeding behavior or social behavior, for instance. Deep and fascinating mysteries.

Ответ для Rebecca R Helm

Obviously, it's a serious calorie coup for the sperm whale, but I have to think this is followed by a massive doubt of indigestion, the kind we'd get if we ate an entire 32-ounce steak with all the sides. And are we talking weeks for the whale's stomach to break of all this down?

Ответ для Chris Otto (Papergreat)

Thus ambergris!!!

Ответ для Chris Otto (Papergreat)

Doubt it! Checked up, a Giant Squid is 150 kg (male) to 275 kg (female), while Sperm Whale is 15 tonnes (female) to 50+ tonnes (male) - 100 to 200 times larger. A fairly normal daily meal, I'd guess. There's plenty of other predators that can take down prey larger than themselves.

Ответ для Rebecca R Helm

Here's a link to the source video account for anyone who wants to dive deeper (yes, pun fully intended): www.instagram.com/lud_adventure/

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Ответ для Rebecca R Helm

I'm so mad that these videos are from like three weeks ago but this is the first I'm seeing about it because the worst people in the world are magnets for everyone's attention these days.

Ответ для Rep. Cool Rick

SAME

Ответ для Rep. Cool Rick

Too many didn't pay enough attention & think seriously about their civic duties & truth of reality, instead cheering reality TV fake heroes & hate fests. Now we live in a tyrannical regime & every day is about what fresh hell & clawing our way out of this garbage. The awesome gets buried.

Ответ для Rebecca R Helm

And a special shout out to literal space historian (and self-proclaimed animal-battle expert) @dagomardegroot.bsky.social for sending me the video! bsky.app/profile/dago...

Dagomar Degroot

Nobody’s better at social media than @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social! This footage has been my holy grail since I was a kid…

Ответ для Rebecca R Helm

For you & animal-battle expert @dagomardegroot.bsky.social: 50+ years ago, in a small Wolof village in the Senegal River valley, by light from kerosene lanterns & occasional lightning from an approaching storm, I witnessed an epic battle between a scorpion & a giant wasp on an adobe wall. 1/2

Ответ для John Sundman

I think the scorpion won, but I don't remember. I recall that the duel went on for more than a minute & went up & down the wall like something from a Hammer Horror movie. I was somewhat conversant in Wolof at the time but couldn't really follow the play-by-play commentary by my African friends. 2/2

Ответ для John Sundman

These posts may have single-handedly convinced me to stay on BlueSky. Thank you.

Ответ для Dagomar Degroot

In that case may I gently request a followback?

Ответ для Dagomar Degroot

The fact that science and nature posts continually make it to the top most viewed of the day shows me there's an intellectual curiosity here on bsky that is genuinely admirable

Ответ для John Sundman

1974- 76, during a time of famine, pestilence & drought, my primary residence was a ten-foot square mud hut with a thatched roof in a HalPulaar village in the Senegal River Valley. On the occasion of the scorpion/wasp duel, I was visiting a friend downriver in a Wolof-speaking area.

The dark side of the hut, 50 years laterThe unexpected is unexpected even when you least expect itopen.substack.com
Ответ для John Sundman

Oh that's nothing. Earlier this Summer I was woken up at six a m by a bird ruckus I had to get the stray persian off a bluejay he had pinned down by the wings,then help it get back in the willow THEN I see a wasp and a bumblebee wrestling on the walkway and I'm like "not today,satan" so I whack...

Ответ для TroyAllen

at them and the bee flies off so I wacked the wasp a few more times cuz it's bad enough the way they paralyze caterpillars so the larvae can feed on them Nature is beautiful but sometimes she gets messy

Ответ для John Sundman

Years ago I worked in Brunei where a dark house gecko ('Darth') lived behind a portrait of the Sultan. One night he ventured out and grabbed a huge moth which then pulled him off the wall. We laughed so much we didn't see where or how the struggle ended, but Darth survived to return to the Sultan.

Ответ для John Sundman

I took a shower with a tarantula. We stayed at opposite ends of the tub. A draw.

Ответ для John Sundman

I saw a peregrine dueling with a kite once, it didn’t look like territorial mobbing but pure pissiness. The kite was hovering on a cliff thermal eyeing prey, the peregrine 200ft above doing same. Tucks, dives, at the last moment the kite jukes 2ft over and peregrine bombs past & almost craters.

Ответ для Tim Feinstein

Peregrine goes into chase mode, he’s fast but the kite keeps cartwheeling over his head and poking his tail feathers. Finally the kite darts between tight branches. The peregrine flares and pisses off like the big dragon in Avatar

Ответ для Rebecca R Helm

And here's me, thinking that sperm whales only eat plankton.

Ответ для Rebecca R Helm

What a jaw dropping video! It feels good to see this kind of history getting made. The clarity of the vid also blows my mind, it’s like there’s no water at all.

Ответ для Rebecca R Helm

Reminds me of this

Ответ для Rebecca R Helm

Looking at the Instagram footage - it appears the video was taken by a scuba diver (lud_adventure), which is pretty darn gutsy!

Ответ для AquamarineinCA

Sperm whales don't seem to mind human divers that much, marine mammals are not their prey so they don't care about the clumsy swimming apes

Ответ для Rebecca R Helm

The scuba diver and the ecotourism account that shared the video seem to have a lot more videos of sperm whales with mouths full of squid even from 2 years ago. Could those also be Architeuthis?

Ответ для Rebecca R Helm

Puns! Giant squid! Sperm Whale eating lunch! Puns! This really is an awesome sight on video. Thank you for posting & sharing with the scientific community & the rest of us nature, wature and all creatures geeks. ⭐️💗🦑🐳

Ответ для Rebecca R Helm

That guy will get so many new followers on instagram now. 😀

Ответ для Rebecca R Helm

OH MY GOD YOU ACTUALLY GOT A PROPER SOURCE ON IT. And here I was wondering if it was AI generated or not. But no. Here we are, an actual marine biologist. This is what the internet needs.

Ответ для Rebecca R Helm

Wow! Thanks for posting this! I’ve never seen anything like this!

Ответ для Rebecca R Helm

Man, if we can get footage of the Colossal Squid / Orca fight, too? But this is so amazing!!!!

Ответ для Rebecca R Helm

Other trivia, the squid seem to have eyes 3x as large as they'd otherwise need, so that they can try to see the whales coming, according to @edyong209.bsky.social book An Immense World, which is amazing, by the way.

Ответ для Rebecca R Helm

bet that squid has notes

Ответ для Rebecca R Helm

Thank you for sharing! I’ve watched this like 10 times already, and shared with my ocean friend.

Ответ для Rebecca R Helm

Looks a bit chewy!

Ответ для Rebecca R Helm

I love the ink part. It shows that even though they exist mostly in darkness and they should be an apex predator but for sperm whales evolution has seen fit for them to keep a defense that assists in running from predators using eyesight.

Ответ для dixon7

Perhaps it’s the opaqueness that helps as well, as even in dark waters bioluminescence is present? But that’s a really interesting thought. Maybe a bit of a chicken and egg evolutionary story?

Ответ для John Connor (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🚲🏙️

It's likely genetically preserved as defense for juvenile squiddos. Parental care is not a strong suit outside of Mammals and (less so) Dinosaurs (birds) Even if is dark, squid inks are occasionally irritants and/or olfactory scramblers/distraction

Ответ для Rebecca R Helm

Battered squid? Whales like calamari?

Ответ для Rebecca R Helm

Real Master and Commander oceans are battlefields moment. This is wild. Makes me want to reread Moby Dick

Ответ для Rebecca R Helm

40-year-old me is losing her mind 😂🤣

Ответ для Alice last name

Yes, actual me also losing mind but child me is going absolutely spare about it

Ответ для Anodyne Handle

Just makes me wanna save this planet even more 😅

Ответ для Rebecca R Helm

And we didn’t SEE any giant squid until very recently!

Ответ для Rebecca R Helm

Really appreciate the scientists and field researchers here. Thanks for sharing. Nature is awesome.

Ответ для Rebecca R Helm

We have also found evidence of them in the bellies of beached/deceased whales. I was completely freaked out when I read that we’ve found whales with 30,000-40,000 giant squid beaks in their bellies.

Ответ для toaddio

They just stay in there???

Ответ для JAC 🐔

Apparently not all/some/most can’t pass through. But if one whale can eat that many…how many are there out there??!?

Ответ для toaddio

Well there's less. Lol.

Ответ для JAC 🐔

I wonder if the freaking genocide of sperm whales caused a population boom of giant squid and we'll never know.

Ответ для toaddio

how many is that a year?

Ответ для mediajunkie

If a sperm whale hunted squid for 80 years, 1 squid a day would be about 30,000.

Ответ для Cyneheard

pretty good hit rate

Ответ для Rebecca R Helm

Thank you for posting about this because I've learned so much.

Ответ для Rebecca R Helm

I remember my childhood sea life / ocean books illustrated with those fights … it sounded like from Jules Verne movie or dinosaur stories …

When a whale does it, it’s OK

Calamari for supper....

This is the insanity I can get behind!

Any idea where this happened?

Ответ для Betty Perry-Fingal

Mauritius

Ответ для Insignificant Human

📌

Ответ для Insignificant Human

Thanks. We have sperm whales here in Dominica's waters, but I don't think we have giant squid.

Ответ для Betty Perry-Fingal

So, it's safe to say you have HUNGRY sperm whales in your waters?

Ответ для Alexander Hay

They must be! Just fish around here.

YEAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!

This is incredible, just incredible.

Omg this is so sick!!!!! I've been waiting for this day for so long 😩

OMG! Never thought I'd get to see this, the stuff of dreams and nightmares of the deep.

Nature is so fuckin cool

Thank you for sharing this during our nations bat chit crazy times FOXTROT DELTA TANGO

The whale should have a little more respect. Squid and octopi are very intelligent animals.

I was rewatching this video for the first time in a while. At the very beginning, there is a second sperm whale also eating a squid or octopus. It's such an incredible video!

Mmmmm ...., calamari.

Squid was named Pinocchio

Magnificent 🤩

I am torn bc I like both whales and squids and that last ink cloud made me kinda sad, but alas, nature does what it does :')

Ответ для Mary!! 🐓❤️

nature is both amazing, beautiful and extremely fucked up for sure.

The Sperm Whale is like "hey, we hear everything is going to shit on land, want to see something cool?"

Ответ для BigBossLuffy

I’m team Squid.

The bottom jaw enthrals me. It doesn't look big and strong enough to defeat a giant squid but the sperm whale polishes it off with ease. Incredible feat of "biological engineering"!

wow!

😯

This is awesome! Of course unless you’re a squid.

😋 mmmmm

For Cousteau's sake LANDSCAPE!

you can almost hear that last CRUNCH 😳

Fascinating but horrible

Mother Nature is a homicidal maniac.

Just a whale snacking on some calamari. Nom, nom.

Big Sushi

Unreal

How’d they get the pic?!?!

Wow, that is amazing! Very cool video! 🐳

What an amazing video… a delightful thread. But surprised not to see any postings for Noah Baumbach 😄 www.criterion.com/films/28830-... The Squid and the Whale (2005) | The Criterion Collection

The Squid and the WhaleWith excruciating honesty, The Squid and the Whale chronicles the experiences of two young brothers growing up in 1980s Park Slope, Brooklyn, as they navigate the jagged contours of the divorce of the...www.criterion.com

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Fucking sick

This is kind of wow.

@down.blue

Ответ для Pedro Daquer

⬇️ Tá na mão, aperta aqui pra baixar!

Things have been getting weirder since the Ocean food chain was broken about a decade ago.. we see massive species migrations from their home waters.. they don't do that unless home became unlivable.. Diets will change as much as possible to accommodate the breakdown.

Ответ для OgreDragon

Unlivable...or they find opportunity and food elsewhere. Consider that 20,000 years ago, much of the Northern Hemisphere was under kms of ice. Then the glaciers retreated, and life moved back into the old place. A future world will still have life, although human existence is not assured.

Ответ для Sue

There is a lot of Hunger going on.. as food supplies aren't abundant.. www.oregonlive.com/environment/...

Gray whale die-off feared as starving whales migrate northThousands of gray whales are migrating past the Oregon coast in poor condition, with record-low calf numbers and visible signs of starvation. Researchers link the crisis to changing Arctic feeding con...www.oregonlive.com
Ответ для OgreDragon

😥

Ответ для keeso

Its much worse than we can likely imagine.. many species effected.. it started for me with starving sea birds over a decade ago... from the Cook Inlet AK to southern west coast Mexico.. and many local papers in between.. Million of birds wash up on beaches.. died of starvation. Endless bodies...

Ответ для OgreDragon

I hate what we’re doing to our environment and life.

Ответ для OgreDragon

This makes me so incredibly sad. We are a loathsome,disgusting species.

Ответ для OgreDragon

😢

Ответ для OgreDragon

This is all very true and horrific, but we've known sperm whales eat squid for decades. Maybe even centuries. It's just that it happens in the vast dark depths, so no one has ever been able to film it.

Ответ для Aerliss

thank you. for that info

Ответ для OgreDragon

This is something thats always happened. Sailors in the 1800s would catch whales with squid guts still in their stomachs. Whales just have the capability to dive as deep as giant squids do, and as far as we know will often hunt them.

Ответ для Max 🏳️‍⚧️ 💛🤍💜🖤

thank you

Poor squiddy. Man, I would love to see a sperm whale up close (but not too close!). Remarkable creatures.

Fresh Calamari!

Ответ для Bill Sayers
a man with a red face is standing in a space ship and saying it 's a trap .Alt: Mon Calamari Admiral Ackbar has a fishlike head and white shirt. is standing in a space ship and saying “it’s a trap”. In the window behind him X-wing and A-wing fighters scramblemedia.tenor.com
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Wow. With the sucker teeth and all, it must be the whale equivalent of hot wings.

Huh. Also a reasonably good GPS location to look for Giant Squid in the future - if whales hunt them there, it makes sense they'd live or range nearby!

That whale 🐋 is a beautiful majestic creature 💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞

When you show me a sperm whale eating a republican, I'll watch it. Till then, ewwwwwww!

WOW

Now show us Tom Homan accepting a Cava bag with $50k in it.

Thank you for this.

This made my 4 yo daughters day. Sperm whales are her favorite and she's pretty sure she wants to be a marine biologist.

Ответ для Aidan Scott

Does she know the show Octonauts?

Ответ для Mommy, a real person

Maybe through peers? We limit tv a lot due to her and her sisters age. But she loves books! Childrens encyclopedias on oceans, whales, dinosaurs and space. She also loves to go to our local aquarium.

Ответ для Aidan Scott

That's good of you! Octonauts is a really cute show that's not very irritating or inaccurate all about marine life. Almost every episode is broken into two 11 minute stories, each focusing on a specific animal. Its pacing isnt frenetic, either. If you wanted to check it out, she might like it.

Ответ для Mommy, a real person

Sorry for plugging Octonauts so hard, my youngest kid was super into it and I remember it so fondly.

Ответ для Mommy, a real person

That's okay, why are you sorry? It sounds neat! I too get excited about the topic and I'm told I can overshare.

Ответ для Aidan Scott

Feels sort of awkward to enthuse about a TV show to someone who is talking about limiting their kids' TV time, I guess. I really tried hard to vet kid media, especially when they were young. It's not easy to find shows that are actually good, not annoying, and not vehicles for product tie ins.

Ответ для Mommy, a real person

The kids actually still put on the Octonauts Christmas episode every December still as a part of their holiday nostalgia watching.

Ответ для Mommy, a real person

Oh! Thanks for taking the time to explain. I can miss contexts like this in conversation sometimes. I maybe came on strong with the limiting TV and didn't consider how that could be intercepted. I agree, finding shows that fits those criteria is really hard. She still watches Bluey sometimes!

Holy shit!

Do we have a size estimate on that baby? Like, do you know how big the average adult sperm whale's jaw is, for comparison?

Ответ для Psychedelic 🏳️‍⚧️ man

I’ve only dug a bit, and couldn’t find a quick source that was verified, but I found a couple places saying ~6 feet / ~2 meters. And given the squid is half stuck in there, I’d say BIG

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Yeah, ink now, asshole. That'll help.

Tagging @mitchiehano.bsky.social for reasons

Ответ для ✖Crossbite [GREMLIN SQUAD]

My daughter wants to be a marine biologist and I was so excited, I was trying to show her the video saying it was amazing! She was horrified & said “NOT for the squid mama!” 🤣

Ответ для Amanda

Hahaha all about perspective 😅

Ответ для Amanda

Bingo.

Ответ для Amanda

Absolutely get where she's coming from! I've been obsessed over animals since I was little and them dying (even when it's another cool animal killing them) is never the highlight of their existence. I think caring about squids as much as whales would make for a good marine biologist!

Ответ для Another Day

Thank you! Both my kids like nature shows, but not if they portray the animals going through circle of life things. They are like “WHY are we watching this animal’s worst time?”

Ответ для Amanda

I appreciate your daughter. I had the exact same reaction, and could only think about the high intelligence of a squid and how desperately it must be fighting for its life. I know, a whale's gotta eat. But still...

Holy Molẽ! Organic life is just brutal. No idea why we’d want to find it on another planet.

BON APPETIT 👍🏻🐋🐙🥴

Saw this on Blue Planet 8 years ago. So what?

My brain is actually giddy watching this! How incredibly amazing!!!

Battered squid? Really? Its hard to fathom how a big smooth blob with a relatively tiny mouth could 'battle' a lithe squid with all its tentacles and win. Like me trying to fight and eat ten snakes with my hands tied behind my back..

That goes well with coffee 🤦‍♀️

Okay. That is pretty amazing.

I have never been so awestruck by the act of lunch before

that helps explain why they wash up half eaten around New Zealand occasionally 😁

Holy moly.

Words fail me.

Ohhhhhhh myyyy goddddddd

Also really interesting to see the second whale there, I didn’t know they hunted together.

Ответ для Cowb0t 𓅃

Looks like a younger. Sperm whales have an incredibly complex society and language!

Ответ для Rebecca R Helm

“Watch this, son”

Ответ для Leslie Ordal

It doesn't even have to be a son/daughter, the big one might be an auntie. With sperm whales it really takes a village (of women) to raise a child.

Ответ для thisisfine2050

“Watch this, nibling” does t quite have the same ring, though

Ответ для Leslie Ordal

hard disagree -- "Watch this, nibling" sounds amazing thanks for it, I'll use it often and treasure it forever

Ответ для JayAllTheEms

😂 that is literally a perfect scenario for “hold my (beer/soda/water/etc.) nibbling and watch this.”

Ответ для Broomsticks and Bonedust (he/him)

Butch elder whale to nibling: watch me chomp this squirty sucker.

Ответ для Leslie Ordal

has exactly the same ring meaning wise you're just not as used to it because father son relationships have long been the stereotype of childrearing

Ответ для Leslie Ordal

Aww, not calamari again, dad!

@trashburgr.bsky.social relevant to your interests

Ответ для Down and Out Wizard

So fucking cool!

Thanks for sharing! My 8-yr-old son is losing HIS mind. Here he is at the aquarium last month.

Ответ для JC R WHIT, Ph.D.

I'm glad kids are still excited by this stuff in this age of information overload! :)

Ответ для JC R WHIT, Ph.D.

I love this so much. I got to go to the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California when I was a teen and I'll never forget it.

it's fun watching them chew it up as it seems to be still weakly fighting back

Ответ для Kategod 🐉🧿🦑𓅛🪬

I hope this doesn't awaken anything within me... (it did)

The whale didn't understand the rules...

And a Kaleo soundtrack!

Seriously, though: holy shit. I haven't closed my mouth yet since I watched this.

I spent the 2/3rds of my life fascinated by an animal that was *assumed* to be real only based on scraps puked up by whales and found on the beach. Now we've got movies of these crazy beasts. Life is amazing.

Ответ для 🌻 PlentyNuff 🌻

First. "first 2/3rds" I meant.

Ответ для 🌻 PlentyNuff 🌻

The Colossal Squid is even larger, I believe? And even more elusive. I think this is accurate. Happy to be corrected, if not.

Ответ для 🌻 PlentyNuff 🌻

Same

Ответ для 🌻 PlentyNuff 🌻

Minions?

Moby!!! My God!

Публикация скрыта фильтром безопасности.

I went whale watching in New Zealand once, where sperm whales rest on the surface taking deep breaths before slipping into the abyss. But they were all polite enough to have wiped their mouths by the time they got back to the surface.

Coolest thing that I have seen all day. Thank you.

So I was wondering, doesn't the pressure difference alone do a number on the squid, or can they deal with that?

Ответ для Soyweiser

Invertebrates are a little more resilient to pressure changes because they don’t have trapped gas in their bodies. But over time it could be a problem. The temperature change would be a big impact for sure!

Ответ для Rebecca R Helm

Thanks! I always wondered if that is why the famous picture of the blobfish looks so strange, because we removed it from its pressurized environment.

Ответ для Rebecca R Helm

My oceanography classes were decades ago, but deep sea invertebrates are basically held together by the pressure. So when they are brought to the surface they just turn to goo. Whales have a remarkable ability to traverse between the surface and the abyss. Or am I wrong?

Ответ для Bob Loblaw

Pressure is important for deep sea inverts. Generally when we bring them to the surface they survive a few days at lower pressure. The temperature change is what really gets them

Ответ для Rebecca R Helm

I just remembered reading reports from sailors about seeing Sperm Whales surfacing with a Giant Squid writhing in their jaws. They were usually dismissed as “mariners’ tales” but now you’d have to say that at least some were true.

Neat!

Wow.

Squid is like, "Fuuuuuuuuuuuck!"

HOLY CRAP!!!

I can offically check this off my bucket list of things I will most likely never view before I kick it. And yes the 10yr girl in this 70yr old is jumpin' up & down !🐳

No he's taking the very ill squid to his mate, as he owes him £6

Ответ для Steve Atkins

Ooof

Details on the lower jaw of a Sperm Whale: Size: While average sizes have decreased due to historical whaling, a massive jaw of over 5 meters (16 feet) has been recorded. so... that squid was at least 15 feet long bodywize..tenticles even longer..I can only imagine.. 25 to 30 feet?

a squid is swimming in the water with the words `` you 've gotta be squidding me '' written above it .ALT: a squid is swimming in the water with the words `` you 've gotta be squidding me '' written above it .media.tenor.com
Ответ для TN Mammaw

This sperm whale is a young one. Not an adult bull of 15 or more meter. This Lower jaw shall be about 2 m (s. comments above) Even then it´s an enormous squid!

Ответ для Meertext

ahh ok ty for your info.. I know nothing of these things.. just reposted on what info they gave (they didnt say young whale) :)

This is just incredible footage. Made my day.

Holy shit!

Oh wow. We knew. We had proof. This was something we understood was happening. But ... there it is, isn't it? And ... shit! IT LOOKS JUST LIKE I BASICALLY IMAGINED IT WOULD LOOK LIKE!

Just like in the old sci fi flicks.

How do whales catch these giant squid? I would think the squid are faster and more maneuverable.

this is one of the most amazing things I've ever seen

Pearl has had about enough of Squidward's smart mouth.

😲 we live on an amazing world indeed

Ответ для Sertraline

It's like a semi eating a bus 👀

Ответ для Silk Flame

How would it even catch one is my question ... I'm assuming a lot of echolocation and then weaponised sonar to disorient squid , because they're very smart and very fast and maneuverable.

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It’s been hypothesized that Architeuthis is a stealth hunter that hangs in the water rather than a speed hunter like the Humbolts. So that might be why they are a preferred species.

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It seems in the video isn't a colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni), but a giant squid (Architeuthis dux), not so massive, but with longer tentacles.

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Oh, didnt notice that, but the image gives an idea of how gigantic are both creatures and how small and silly we are 🤷🏻‍♀️

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No doubt, I always love to feel dwarfed by the wilderness and wished that feeling could reach silly powerful people ;)

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There were 18th c reports of these whales reaching lengths of 80 - 100 feet - before we hunted them to near extinction. We have downsized to many ocean dwellers, such as tuna, because we go after the biggest, so I believe those sizes are pretty accurate.

Poor squid, but big momma gotta eat!

Calamari! YUM!

@down.blue

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⬇️ Tá na mão, aperta aqui pra baixar!

Oooohhh wow. I'm getting the 1920s horror writer eldritch goosepimples from this!! This is new shit!!!

It's probably one of the most amazing pieces of footage I've seen. The squirt of ink, and the last hard bite from the whale is just fantastic.

Wow! Thank you so much to everyone involved in sharing this with everybody!

Wow! That’s a mouthful!

After 20,000 Leagues, people would have nightmares about giant squid. Now we see what giant squid have nightmares about.

Impressive video! ‘Squid pro quo’? 🐳

That is an immense effing squid! How long is a sperm whale’s jaw? Like 15 or 18 feet? Just the body of this squid is that long!! Amazing video, thanks so much for sharing.

@danielkraus.com !!

That is incredible.. insane even!

RIP squiddy 🦑 but wooow that's so awesome

Incredible, and the black ink.

My internal head cannon is just of the whale going “Nom Nom Nom! I love me some calamari!”

Sperm Whale: Hmm… yes how delicious this Architeuthis dux is. *munch* is that Squid Ink I taste? How exquisite. Sperm Whale 2: STEVE JUST EAT THE SQUID ALREADY-

What are the actual chances that we just happened to stumble upon a Sperm Whale who just happened to like to savor its well-earned dinner rather than just eat it while in the dark depths.

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maybe its a whale equivalent of a nice sunlit porch!

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Maybe they're easier to eat closer to the surface, maybe the pressure change is difficult on the squid and makes them easier to eat? Or maybe the whale's pod was surfacing and it didn't want to be left behind?

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It's got a calf nearby, so presumably that's something to do with it

Sperm whales are amazing and probably should be appreciated for the literal monsters they are ( monsters in a good way).

*Dopamine levels increased* I appreciate this oasis of positivity amongst all the muck of news to process

It's also insane that there is no non-titoki version of this video. I might be old fashion, but it just feels like this content should be more than a recycled tiktok video, it's like it's being held for clicks or something. Now science is packaged for short attention spans? wtf

It's probably the hardest to swallow meal in history.

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Dog eat dog

RIGHT ON. Like the US AGAINST DISNEY AND TRUMP.....and so, and thats a FEMALE. Yay. This is the kind of footage we have been looking for for years!!!

What in the Moby Dick is that? I love it but it looks pretty rough on the Giant Squid.

THIS IS MY FIRST POST SAVED, FUCK YEAHHH FINALLY WE SEE IT HAPPEN

Must be why they invented tartar sauce.

I get nature can seem cruel but this is kinda sad

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Nothing sad about it. What do you think they eat? This is one of the first times scientists have gotten a look at how sperm whales actually eat giant squids, personally that's really cool and also important for understanding the relationship between the two species. Sure, they've figured for years

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that sperm whales eat giant squid, because of ring shaped scars on the sperm whales, but this is some of the first direct evidence of a sperm whale eating a giant squid.

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And given that there has been evidence and suspicion for years that says the giant squid population is probably larger than we think it is. They’re just really good at hiding. Kind of like an octopus.

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Far from it, the giant squid population in the Gulf of California has collapsed, which has led to sperm whales leaving the Gulf or starving to death. The open ocean is really really empty, and the collapse of squid populations is causing serious problems for the whale populations that depend on them

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Now that is really sad!! How humans ruined and are ruining our world

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No doubt , not that I know much about ocean life. But one living thing eating another while it's alive Ya, nature isn't always pretty Just my view

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I'm pretty sure the whale is trying to kill it before ingesting. It's the end of a fight, what we see.

@charlenemarie.bsky.social !!!! Loook

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Was he eating it or was it attacking him 😳😳😳

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I guess I turned into the person I despise, who will ask if this is really true and not AI generated...

That’s cool 😎

Bit the ink out of him lol

How can something so huge have suck tiny eyes. My favorite whale!

Mmm. That makes me hungry for One-sun-dried squid (Mực một nắng) again. Haven't had it since we were in Vietnam to adopt our son in 2002. Nummy.

@ologies.bsky.social have you seen this yet?!

This is just so cool.

Feels like an allegory for what is happening to democracy in the USA now.

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One party is a spinless invertebrate?

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...spineless...

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Spinless works too

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🤣

Tbh the whale eating is not that impressive. What amazes me is how truly giant that squid is. Assuming this is an adult whale, the squid is way larger than a human being. Imagine encountering such a squid, super scary.

Amazing!! I didn’t know Sperm Whales ate squid

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We’ve known for years but this is the first time we see it live!

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It’s very exciting!

squid 👀 game

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Wow!! Amazing they got this footage

So cool!

That is so fricking cool!

… O M G

Mfw I think I'm apex but I get ingested

Fascinating

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I mean who doesn't love some fresh calamari?

Anyone else have no idea how teeny skinnybones their lower jaws were? Like comparatively o course. Thats still a big ol mouth lol

Omg omg

As someone who has studied these whales for decades.... Um. WOW.

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Omg really!!?? That’s awesome! I knew it was cool, but part of me wondered if a sperm whale biologist somewhere already knew all this 😅

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Instagram at: www.instagram.com/reel/DN3h9QF... appears to be authentic -- but also "private citizen" ? Can not find any papers on this encounter, and an actual expedition, say, Southwest Fisheries or similar, would absolutely have a paper.... Female with calf -- the males can be twice the size.

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That post credits this account that has many sperm whale videos and seems legit indeed www.instagram.com/reel/DOk8-Pc...

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His account has insane footage! And many are older than AI video tech, so we can exhale and enjoy without being fools.

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That's legitimately great news

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I would really love to know if it's authentic!

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Understanding that you can only guesstimate—if that’s an average sized female sperm whale, how big is that squid?!

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I'm praying so hard that this video isn't "AI" or doctored in any way

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Thank you. I hate that I have to second guess my own eyes anymore.

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Honestly, i can detect an AI video miles away when it comes to biology at this point. And this... This is amazing. I am SURE this is real, thats insane.

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I'm certain it's real. The movements are natural, and you can see the way the mass shifts about. AI would morph parts, and would try extremely hard to make the squid easily identifiable as a squid. That mass of meat is only squid like to a brain human. AI can't even hope to replicate that mess.

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*sigh* human brain, not brain human. I want edit feature in bsky so much.

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If it were AI the whale would be stuffing the squid into its mouth with six fingers.

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they credit a different instagram for the footage: www.instagram.com/lud_adventure/

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Seems to be a dude with a GoPro and a crazy hobby

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If you want to hear a Cachalot hunting a squid - You'll have to put up with the rather vociferous Humpack in the foreground but, in the background, is a Cachalot, hunting in Monterey Bay. One of the few places in the world you can see both species in the same location. freesound.org/people/MBARI...

Humpback whale and cachalot by MBARI_MARSThis recording of humpback whale (<i>Megaptera novaeangliae</i>) song and echolocation clicks of a cachalot (<i>Physeter macrocephalus</i>) is part of a series of recordings from an <a href="http://ww...freesound.org
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Very sorry but sperm whales Latin name (giggles) sounds like catchalot...of Squid!! Seeing aftermeals of octopus bags is a cherished memory in azores

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I was impressed when they were able to attach an underwater camera to the back of one and saw how deep and fast they dive. But to actually witness what we all knew they do is just something unbelievable.

Kind of a drive thru. 😉

And people always say I’m being “hyperbolic” when I say there’s monsters in the ocean.

WOW !!!!!

I wonder if the squid ever wins?

I feel seen

Cool video!

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Shark, not whale, but still neat! buttondown.com/surekhadavie...

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We didn't even have footage of living giant squid until ~15ish years ago.

Interesting and likely a once in a lifetime picture. Thanks, I think.

Imagine floating around in a massive vat of soup waiting to be eaten alive. 🦑

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That's sea life. 🤷‍♀️

I’ll have the calimari to start…

Yummy, yummy in my tummy, said the whale 🐳 (╹◡╹)

Wow. 20 foot tentacles? At least?

This was already predicted by the prophets.

Amazing to be caught on video. I almost thought at first this was AI created. TY for sharing!

This has been a very shitty week but holy crap did this make it about 100x better!

By Captain Nemo’s Beard! This is amazing!

OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG I read all how they would find tentacles pieces in their bellies and they knew it would happen and at the AMNH they have that diorama and OMG OMG

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😮