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What the Vampire Squid Really Eats

submitted by Mordhaus

8 years 6 months 4 weeks ago

For years marine biologists have puzzled over what the mysterious vampire squid eats. Recent research by Henk-Jan Hoving and Bruce Robison at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute finally reveals the answer. These deep-sea creatures use long, retractile filaments to passively harvest particles and aggregates of detritus, or marine snow, sinking from the waters above. This feeding strategy, unknown in any other cephalopod (this group of animals includes squid and octopods), allows vampire squid to thrive in the oxygen minimum zone where there are few predators but marine detritus is abundant.

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ForgedReality says...

So, basically it eats fish poop. Nice.

Bruti79 says...

I wonder what the effect of plastic particles will be on them. I was thinking they may be screwed by the sheer amount, but maybe the low metabolic rates may do something about that?

It's a neat creature, and one that can survive in the growing oxygen free zones in the ocean.

Maybe life has found a way with this thing. =)

jokingly says...

I wonder what the effect of plastic particles will be on them. I was thinking they may be screwed by the sheer amount, but maybe the low metabolic rates may do something about that?

It's a neat creature, and one that can survive in the growing oxygen free zones in the ocean.

Maybe life has found a way with this thing. =)

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