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When not feeding or being hunted, Humboldt squid exhibit curious and intelligent behavior. [37] Jeremy Wade deals with the Humboldt squid in his documentary River Monsters. Here, a California fisherman claims to have been attacked at a fish table one night as he tried to swim from one boat to another.
The Humboldt squid (Dosidicus gigas), also known as jumbo squid or jumbo flying squid (EN), and Pota in Peru or Jibia in Chile (ES), is a large, predatory squid living in the eastern Pacific Ocean. It is the only known species of the genus Dosidicus of the subfamily Ommastrephinae , family Ommastrephidae .
Ommastrephinae includes the largest species of squids belonging to the family Ommastrephidae, Humboldt squid (Dosidicus gigas) which can grow to 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) in mantle length (ML). [3] It also contains the smallest squid species belonging to the family, the glass squid ( Hyaloteuthis pelagica ) which has a mantle length of only up to 9 ...
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The flukes have a complex life cycle with freshwater snails as intermediate hosts; people swimming or washing in the water are at risk of infection. [52] Molluscs can also carry angiostrongyliasis , a disease caused by the worms of the Angiostrongylus spp., which can occur after voluntarily or inadvertently consuming raw snails, slugs, other ...
Gilly's current research program on squid concentrates on the behavior and physiology of Dosidicus gigas, the jumbo or Humboldt squid.Fieldwork in the Gulf of California [2] [3] near Santa Rosalía, Baja California Sur [4] and off Monterey Bay employs a variety of tagging methodologies in order to track short-term diel vertical migrations as well as long-distance migrations.
By RYAN GORMAN Amazing footage has emerged of a squid attacking a submarine. Greenpeace posted a video online Friday showing the giant squid attacking the underwater vessel during a recent excursion.
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