Cephalopods need love, too
By Chuck Doud
The Madera Tribune
Word just in from New Zealand is that scientists there have been thawing out the biggest squid ever caught, and have found that it has the biggest eye anybody has ever seen, about 11 inches across, with a lens the size of an orange. The collossal squid, as it is known, is about 26 feet long. It can grow to 46 feet, unless it gets caught.
A photo of the squid shows it to resemble a 10-foot plate of spaghetti without the sauce. It was caught by accident by a fishing boat, the crew of which took one look at it and put it in the on-board freezer.
What is it with scientists and cephalopods? Just last month, we had a scientist being written up in the news for getting up close and personal to the love lives of octopuses, and now we have scientists poking around in the earthly remains of a collosal squid.
Imagine how the squid’s husband (she was pregnant) must feel. Now he is probably going into squid singles bars, looking for another wife, but probably running into scientists who are snooping around at collosal squid mating behavior. Imagine the remaining members of her collosal squid bridge club who had to look for another fourth.
The lustful octopuses and the collosal squids are probably hoping the scientists go back to their test tubes soon so that they, the cephalopods, can carry on hunting other animals and romancing each other, which is about all they do.
If people ever decide to establish colonies on the sea floor, squids probably will grow legs and move to Kansas. Even tornadoes there wouldn’t be as bad as what they’re going through now.
Cephalopods need love, too.
