How Many Squid Are in the Deep Ocean?

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These big fin or long arm squid, magnapina, have roughly 200 and forty feet of legs. Their arms are covered in microop suckers that catch teeny tiny prey like fly strips. They hold them out at this weirdo angle so the dangler part of their arms will just like fall limp. So it looks like they have elbows, a which is already unnerving,. Because saphilopods don't have bones, so how do they have elbows? But they do have elbows, in a sense, and it is the creepiest thing.

This is NOT about the Netflix show, Squid Game. It's about shapeshifting, flirtatious trickery, living fishing lures, siphon squirts, weird things found in shark stomachs, and cephalopods who are downright dicks to fish: real games played in nature by real squid. Because we weren't the only ones watching Squid Game and thinking, "Why aren't there more squid in this?" Hence we combined the study of squids (teuthology) and games (ludology) to make Teuthological Ludology with everyone's favorite squid expert: Dr. Sarah McAnulty from the 2018 Teuthology episode. We reunited on mic for all the deep sea gossip, wrapped in the most shameless pun ever.

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Sound editing by Jarrett Sleeper of MindJam Media & Steven Ray Morris