🔄FROM THE ARCHIVE: The clip provides more support that the animals actively hunt, rather than wait for prey to come to them.
Rare GThe footage, which revealed surprising information about the squid’s behavior, is the latest to surface from a covert camera system that first recorded the giant squid in deep waters off the coast of Japan in 2012 — and has since captured footage of at least two additional species of elusive deep-sea squids.published in June, Robinson and his team describe the camera’s unobtrusive design and specialized bait, which the authors say are fundamental to our viewing of these cunning creatures.
Widder understood that deep-sea cephalopods, because of their intelligence and sensitive eyesight, avoid traditional sampling methods like trawling nets and loud, bright submersibles. Instead, the stealthy Medusa uses red-light illuminators, which deep-sea critters can’t see, is equipped with low-light cameras and drifts noiselessly through the deep.
Widder attached an electronic lure called an “E-Jelly” to the camera, an addition that the authors say is key to attracting predators like the giant squid. Many deep-sea organisms emit natural light from their bodies, known as, and the swirling LED lights of the E-Jelly mimic the bioluminescent alarm signal of a certain jellyfish species. Even though deep-sea squids aren’t known to eat the jellyfish, they’re attracted to the lights because they might make a meal of its supposed attacker.
But his persistence paid off; scientists gleaned valuable information about the behavior of giant squids from one short clip. While many hypothesized that giant squids were “sit-and-wait” predators that remained stationary and waited for food to come to them, the video proved that the squid stalked the E-Jelly, calculating its attack. “The fact that it was tracking the E-Jelly provides more support that these are actively hunting animals,” Robinson says.
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