How to Trick Squid, Octopus, Cuttlefish, and the Whole Gang

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The squid are just tricky bastards across emos the board. They are trying to fool either their predators, their prey, or just mess around. And so in those flippy flaps that we see sometimes at the top of their conical heads, those are, in fact, not ears at all,. Those are fins, a very useful, very cute, kind of look like micky mouse ears in some species. Ok. Now, hit me with some games hime wa s rit into it. Let's get into it.

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