I've Been Crying Over This Squid for Half an Hour, I Hate It

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I've never seen a more horrifying animal that i respect so deeply. The footage that i'm seeing stills of absolutely ooks, like pernormal,. Like enorman tim yesoure normal activity. I don't know, dud there's you donmu us to now i mis churces mac what? What theinga erie this strike evr indian man, ever i seen, i just, like, feel so much joy at the every time i look at them because of the spook factor. And one video i watched, the most upvoted and presumably relatable comment was, i've been crying over this squid for half an hour i hate 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