The hunger games is kind of like squid game in that we've got like a battle royal situation happening. And so you may recall, if you watch the hunger games, that there's a portion where pete will turn himself into like a rock. moss i ot pe pete and bobtail squid a hundred % do this. So they have the ability to make their skin super sticky, and they will stick rocks to themselves and then end up looking exactly like sediment. They just ally glue rocks to their skin. The next singin will begin momentarilly. I'm sure that this particular season, with squids being in the media so much, has got to be so agonising for
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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