[KiddieKorral]

Giant squid observed for first time in wild

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')ith eyes as large as Frisbees and a tangled mess of sucker pad-lined tentacles, the long-mysterious giant squid has finally been observed and photographed in the wild. A specimen about 26 feet long was observed by a Japanese team of scientists at a depth of 2,953 feet (900 meters) in the North Pacific ocean, 620 miles south of Japan.

[clv101]

Poor thing lost one of it's two tentacles! I wonder if that 'accident' happened on purpose so they could do a DNA test... could they not free the creature with out it ripping a tentacle off?

[katkinkate]

The people were watching via a camera link to the boat on the surface. The squid got hooked nearly a kilometer below the surface and got itself off the hook.

It would have been both facinating and upsetting to see it struggling at the end of the line for hours to free itself.

[Raxozanne]

The japanese snared this rare and magnificant giant squid with a baited hook and then watched it for hours struggling to get off the hook. Finally it managed to by ripping out one of its tenticles which they happily brought up and poked at. It might have been fun and interesting for the japs but this kind of thing can mean life and death to an animal in the wild through both loss of functioning limb and trauma. What a way to treat animals just to get a video recording.

It made me sick to read it.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Raxozanne', 'T')he japanese snared this rare and magnificant giant squid with a baited hook

[Specop_007]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('clv101', 'P')oor thing lost one of it's two tentacles! I wonder if that 'accident' happened on purpose so they could do a DNA test... could they not free the creature with out it ripping a tentacle off?

[Specop_007]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Raxozanne', 'T')he japanese snared this rare and magnificant giant squid with a baited hook and then watched it for hours struggling to get off the hook. Finally it managed to by ripping out one of its tenticles which they happily brought up and poked at. It might have been fun and interesting for the japs but this kind of thing can mean life and death to an animal in the wild through both loss of functioning limb and trauma. What a way to treat animals just to get a video recording.

It made me sick to read it.

[0mar]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Raxozanne', 'T')he japanese snared this rare and magnificant giant squid with a baited hook and then watched it for hours struggling to get off the hook. Finally it managed to by ripping out one of its tenticles which they happily brought up and poked at. It might have been fun and interesting for the japs but this kind of thing can mean life and death to an animal in the wild through both loss of functioning limb and trauma. What a way to treat animals just to get a video recording.

It made me sick to read it.

[Specop_007]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('0mar', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Raxozanne', 'T')he japanese snared this rare and magnificant giant squid with a baited hook and then watched it for hours struggling to get off the hook. Finally it managed to by ripping out one of its tenticles which they happily brought up and poked at. It might have been fun and interesting for the japs but this kind of thing can mean life and death to an animal in the wild through both loss of functioning limb and trauma. What a way to treat animals just to get a video recording.

It made me sick to read it.

[Raxozanne]

It's the concept of us interacting for the first time with this rare novel creature by baiting it and forcing it to rip a tentacle off which dissappointed me.

[clv101]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Specop_007', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('clv101', 'P')oor thing lost one of it's two tentacles! I wonder if that 'accident' happened on purpose so they could do a DNA test... could they not free the creature with out it ripping a tentacle off?

[Specop_007]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('clv101', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Specop_007', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('clv101', 'P')oor thing lost one of it's two tentacles! I wonder if that 'accident' happened on purpose so they could do a DNA test... could they not free the creature with out it ripping a tentacle off?

[Palkerss]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')entacles can refer to the elongated flexible organs that are present in many invertebrates, and sometimes to the hairs of the leaves of some insectivorous plants. Usually, they are used for feeding and grasping. Anatomically, they work like other muscular hydrostats.

[J-Rod]

Ouch, pwned.

[skateari]

Yup. Owned. LOL