CuriousAnimals » squid http://curiousanimals.net Animals kingdom opens for you Thu, 24 May 2012 10:40:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Massive Squid Are on the Beach After Quake http://curiousanimals.net/fish/massive-squid-washes-up-on-beach-in-quake-aftermath/ http://curiousanimals.net/fish/massive-squid-washes-up-on-beach-in-quake-aftermath/#comments Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:06:43 +0000 angel http://curiousanimals.net/fish/massive-squid-washes-up-on-beach-in-quake-aftermath/ It was a very strange and even dangerous (to some extent) morning in La Jolla. People woke up from … shaking. It was the aftermaths of the earthquake. According to witnesses, doors and windows were rattling. The saddest thing was actually right after the quake – people found a lot of Humboldt squid flapping around on La Jolla Shores beach.

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People immediately started helping poor sea-dwellers to get back home, however, they weren’t the only “visitors” at the seashore – the seagulls were swooping in and started feeding on the squid. People claimed that those squids were heavy, very slippery, and completely disoriented after the earthquake.

These spices of squids are known for attacking scuba divers. Humboldt squid live at depths of 660 to 2,300 feet in the eastern Pacific. Such a squid reaches up to 6 feet and weighs as much as 100 pounds. I don’t want to meet one …

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