The first bit of this video is an opalescent squid filling her egg sac; then the cool and special part is how many squid mothers carefully insert their sac into a community cluster. Oh, man, they’re just lovely.
Jan 07 2013
Making babies
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chigau (無味ない)
7 January 2013 at 4:39 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Now I want to see them hatch.
WMDKitty (Always growing and learning)
7 January 2013 at 5:12 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
That was awesome.
damiand
7 January 2013 at 5:23 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Wow, thank you for featuring this on Pharyngula! I’m a fan and never expected to see my stuff here. Cheers!
Ogvorbis: Broken and feeling worthless
7 January 2013 at 5:24 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
That’s beautiful.
And I love the way, when she is filling the egg sack, it looks like she is giving the camera the stink-eye. Sort of, “Why are you filming this?”
chigau (無味ない)
7 January 2013 at 5:27 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Very nice work, damiand.
SC (Salty Current), OM
7 January 2013 at 5:29 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
They really are. And what a nicely done video.
Hekuni Cat, MQG
7 January 2013 at 5:51 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Simply wonderful.
cm's changeable moniker
7 January 2013 at 6:27 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
It is all kinds of awesome, but I kind of expected something at the end to go “ooh, squid egg sacs, NYOM”.
Do they really just leave them there? That’s brave.
catlover
7 January 2013 at 6:43 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
That’s really pretty neat! I loved the music.
I don’t know much about squid and was
surprised at the large size of her eyes.
I, too, wonder how any of the little ones ever
survive predator attacks. Those egg sacs look
awfully defenseless.
Taslima Nasreen
7 January 2013 at 6:55 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Wow, So beautiful!
jnorris
7 January 2013 at 7:46 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I too wonder how the community hatchery is protected. It looks to vulnerable. Also, in the first part of the film, is the egg sack in among the tentacles?
jstackpo
7 January 2013 at 8:30 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
How does mom attach the egg-sack to the twig (or whatever that stick-like item is)?
Giliell, professional cynic
8 January 2013 at 7:43 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I guess there’s no squid equivalence to “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.”
zan
10 January 2013 at 12:54 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Why do some types of squid pile their egg sacs together? It seems like a great way to let predators find all the eggs in one place to eat them all.
Scott McGreal
13 January 2013 at 5:14 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Wow, that was truly amazing, I never had any idea that squid did this communal egg sac thing. I wonder what the purpose of it is?