Some squid species are more cannibalistic than others. Some, like the little bobtail squid that i worked on during my ph d, they don't really eat each other at all. But a squids certainly do sometimes get violent with each other. So it does happen. Listen, there are 456 players in squid game, and we all have our own favorite. When people ask me, what's your favorite squid? I usually say magna penna. Has a ginormous, like, round fin that it very slowly undulates through the water. They are pretty pale in color, so they look super ghost but the spilkiest thing about these squid is that they have
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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