@@syaondritbf that number compared the the number of zooplankton is a much lower percentage 👀 they’re tiny and breed fast. Giant deep ocean creatures typically don’t grow or breed fast
@@syaondri it’s a general trend noticed by marine biologists so yes it’s definitely a trend but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible for a creature not to follow said trend. Which I would assume the squid aren’t since there are so many available for lunch apparently
Now think how the 80 billion cows, chickens, pigs, sheep etc. feel, that we forcibly breed into existence, kill and consume every year. Entirely unnecessarily.
Plot twist The army of giant squids is fought daily by the sperm whales, who bravely keep the land safe from the sons of Chthulhu Too much of a coincidence, if you ask me
They have found the beaks of squids in whales stomachs that were bigger than bowling balls, and suction cup scars on the skin of whales heads measuring up to eighteen inches across! Suggesting giant squid that were more than a hundred feet long! And, even at that great size, they're apparently STILL not a match for a hungry Sperm Whale! 🦑🐋
@@taotzu1339 "Indeed, when using ultrasonic transients closely mimicking those of toothed whale echolocation clicks on squid34 and on fish with swim-bladders35,36, RLs up to 226 dB re 1 μPa (pp) did not impair the swimming behaviour of either species. Hence, acoustic debilitation seems unlikely if sperm whales do not expose their prey to more than 235 dB re 1 μPa (pp) during prey capture. In fact source level estimates of buzz clicks from sperm whales have been estimated to be less than 210 dB re μPa (pp)20, so if sperm whale prey are indeed caught at the end of buzzes, their capture cannot be explained by acoustic debilitation." 2016, 'Sperm whale predator-prey interactions involve chasing and buzzing, but no acoustic stunning' Do you have a contrary source?
Even more disconcertingly, consider the number of Sperm whales that the squid population was able to support before we killed millions of Sperm whales (>600000 in the 20th century alone)
Was just thinking that! Although it may be that giant squid making up so much of their diet is a fairly recent adaptation. We'd need to have data from the before times. Would be super cool if there was some somewhere!
@@hunterG60k Very good point, I'm no whale-ologist but I seem to remember stories of squid beaks in whale stomachs from the early days of (european industrialised) whaling. I think Sperm whales' deep diving is a fairly old part of their evolutionary history (although I may be mistaken) so they've been eating something that lives at depth for a while. Whether it be Giant/Colossal squid or maybe a large number of smaller squid species, although I'd imagine their style of feeding is more suited to larger, but fewer prey items (again, not a whale-ologist)
@@matt8291A1 I still don't get how old whalers did what they did. They didn't pull it onboard, they literally climbed onto it while it was just floating, and extracted oil. People died doing that, many couldn't swim..
@@nunya_bizniz gimmicky fact. Once in space it is easier to travel miles than it is down the ocean, thus ocean obviously gets more money per cubic mile. But what about general investment?
I honestly think that’s more of an argument against us going to space because look what we’ve done to the Ocean. The Ocean needs the opposite of more humans f*cking about. Leave them squids, aliens, plants, planets, celestial bodies and stars to they own self. We need’a figure our own crap out before afflicting ourselves on any other anything really!!!
That's Cosmic horror numbers. I don't think most people can even process a 60 foot predator. Let alone millions quietly waiting with serrated teeth on every sucker & eyes the size of basketballs. Then a beak like a bear trap as strong as metal.
Calm down Captain Nemo. You're more likely to die from a cow attack than a giant squid. Nevermind the crushing depths they live in. You're perfectly safe i assure you (from squid, not cattle.)
Keep in mind though that these giant squid have to eat their meals in (comparatively) tiny nibbles because the squid brain is a loop that wraps around their esophagus. Take too big a bite of something, and and they could potentially hurt themselves or die. Sometimes nature is spooky, sonetimes it's derpy, and sometimes it's both.
OP: describes giant squids like a horrible nightmare monster Person above: they'll also die if they take too big of a bite That's a bit of a rollercoaster ngl 😂 gotta love how very weird nature is.
Because giants are just peaceful floating canoe-sized sausages that drift around, humboldts are ravenous pack-hunting nightmares that will intentionally drag you to Davy Jones' locker to drown you.
Obviously there are alot of giant squid. The Sperm whale is a gigantic meat eater with gigantic calorie requirements. These squids live at depths though that humans rarely go. If you see one near the surface, it's dead or dying. Sperm whales often have scars from their deep sea hunts, so they apparently do not always go down easy. Maybe as deep sea drone tech improves, we can watch some of these big game hunts.
Unless some sort of visual sonar is used to get a clear picture, because with lights you’ll only create a field of vision about 20 ft max. The dense water wouldn’t let you penetrate further.
When I was a child, there was a "submarine" ride at Disneyworld for 20,000 Leagues under the Sea. The entire ride (except for boarding) was under water, and it absolutely terrified me. Now, I feel very validated.
I'm a 30-year experienced offshore commercial fishermen engineer Navigator and captain's license. I've seen whales with Battle scars all over their backs from these giant squids beaks, the big squid are able to wrap their tentacles around the whales blow hole and actually smother him.
Lmfao. I wonder how intelligent they are, like obviously squid aren't quite as intelligent as octopus, but they may be like pretty smart, at least compared to fish. We idolise whales, even though they're literally just giant ki*ling machines. While sharks, they're horrible. I guess it's mainly because they don't attack or care about us! But your idea is kinda hilarious, what if they're just on the bottom scared, cause these giant terrifying monsters from above always come to eat them 😂 Tbh I hate squid though, as those giant squids that people dive with, have been known to literally ki*l people if their instincts are triggered!
Not likely imo. The ocean is very difficult for civilization to develop because of the water resistance and pressure makes tool creation almost impossible
Also this; if their lifespan was longer, say over a decade, I doubt they'd be solitary, and develop social dynamics. Not to mention other pretty amazing technology they'd then come up with. That's what I think is TERRIFYING!
@@henrypark7381The good thing is that technology tends to work very poorly when sumberged in water. Also, if they're not smarter than an octopus then they're not building anything anytime soon. Would probably be really difficult to use cable or rope with those suckers of theirs, they don't just lack thumbs- they lack all fingers. Dolphins are smart and have social dynamics, yet they are not a threat to us. Because with their bodies and habitat they just cannot do or build anything that could truly endanger our species. (They have however, done absolutely abhorrent things to individual people...) So, don't worry about them too much in that way. We'll be safe on land from them.
I caught one by accident while fishing very deep in a trench. When I got it to the surface it was very, very angry - and clearly dangerous as it flailed it's arms which almost hit the boat deck -and their suckers have sharp teeth on them! We cut the line quickly, but the captain and one of the deckhands had rifles trained on the squid just in case.
I wish more people realized that a "60 foot long behemoth" squid has 40 of those feet consists of 2 long skinny tentacles. Only 20 or so feet is body and arms. Ok, still big but not THAT big.
Well Giant Squid (Architeuthis dux) only get to about 20-30 ft tops, Colossal Squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) are bigger and get to about 40 feet in length. Sperm whales very rarely attack squid over 20 feet so scientists don’t actually believe there are 60 foot monsters everywhere down deep 😅😅. The honest truth is that a specimen over 30 foot is quite rare…
Interesting. Always fascinated by the squid. From Humboldt to whatever is bigger. And you know there giant ones down deep. They’ve evolved with huge eyes to see everything. And are voracious.
The fact that they refrain from elaborating upon, is that there are actually huge giant squid, giant cities in the bathypelagic zone. they also populate the mesopelagic zone above and dive to the abyssopelagic zones! That's where they really party! And they play squid games! And tentacle wrestling champions reign. 🦑🦑🦑🦑
For as far as I found, giant squids only reach a length up to 43 feet, not 60. Still giant, but I think it's important not to exaggerate if this is true?
Problem with the ocean is it's just so much bigger and darker than what we can explore. Which is cool, and thalassophobia doth swiftly follow, but hey. A square mile of the ocean's surface is equivalent to 100+ miles of land area, and it constantly shifts, no landmarks in 98% of it, its gonna have a while until we understand half of it.
My wife always prepare my meal, lunch and dinner ( i dont eat breakfast). But during may days off, its my time to pamper her by cooking for her and helping her with the other chores.
So, the problem with this statement is the same as “The USA has 330 million privately owned guns and 300 million known residents. That means that you would be really likely to see a gun in Antarctica.”
This video confirms a thought that would creep up almost daily where I'd think "somewhere out in the ocean right now there's probably a sperm whale fighting a giant squid". Almost every day at random I'd think this, and it was probably true.
What a cool and terrifying animal. I’d love to see one, but from a distance while I’m in a boat going the opposite direction lmao or one that’s small enough to not see me as prey. It’s amazing how many weird animals live down in the deep ocean that we hardly ever run into.
pretty sure they moved lower when we finally got bigger and louder boats/ships. probably why you would hear so many fishermen talk about a huge squid or octopus
Also a lot less fish in the ocean then there was 100+ years ago. Less prey means less predators. And the big ones are the first to start disappearing since they need more food.
I think it's both awesome, and amazing that there's lot's of giant squid 🦑🦑🦑 swimming in the ocean! So many species of ocean life is facing increasingly dwindling numbers due to pollution and destruction of food sources. Keep squidding squids!!!🦑♥️
...which begs the question: What can all of those hundreds of millions of giant squid down there in the deep ocean be eating in order for a sustainable population of them to be able to afford losing that many of themselves to this literal whale-scale of predation? Now, sperm whales can dive pretty deep to reach their intended prey (about a mile or two down); but, due to the obvious nature of their being air-breathers, there's a vast region of the deepest depths of the ocean that's entirely unreachable to them that both giant and colossal squid have no problem reaching -- an unseen ecosystem, which could encompass at least half of the volume of the oceans' waters, in which they are very likely the apex predators in
living in the middle of the US i still have a complete fear of deep water/what i can’t see yet i still love watching the deep sea videos before i sleep😂
Well, this means there is nothing to worry about. When you say elusive and alarming you make it sound like the giant squids are an endangered species or even threatened by extinction but this means there is a huge amount of them. I mean despite ALL the diving only _very_ few have been found compared to other animals so despite their size and presumably large population they pose no real threat to people or machines at all.
Well it’s 2 things here 1 I don’t think about giant squids…I can’t even swim so yeah 2 scientist are always saying some shit that don’t make it innately true
131 million squid is pretty sparse. The world's oceans have a volume of 1.335 billion cubic kilometers. That would make for an average of 1 giant squid for every 10.5 cubic kilometers, which is over 4,000 Olympic swimming pools
One of the most unique pieces of footage I’ve ever seen was a video shot of a sperm whale that clearly had recently eaten a giant squid and the squid’s severed tentacles were still attached onto the mouth and upper head of the whale. Large tentacles that look like they could drag men down to their watery graves.
Actually converting giant squid into whale poop fertilizes the mesopelagic ocean. This provides nutrients for the phytopla ton, the krill, then food for the bait of giant squid. So its an amazing cycle of life.
It is impossible for me to read the subtitles since they are covered by this video's title and a link to another one etc, is there any way to turn off the video info being projected over the video?
Well the ocean is big, they are molluscs, and if they breed up anything like the molluscs in my vicinity, they're quite prolific. Kind of stands to reason...
