![]() I found this story so disturbing when I first read it I realize now it was simply a result of Dick’s study of Gnostic texts and thinking about Christian mythology. Dick, “Rautavaara’s Case,” in which Christ appears and consumes the crew of a spaceship in a reversal of the Eucharist. I said to Bruce, “Do you suppose they are eating the others who are caught on the line because they know they will be taken by the fishermen, and they believe it is better to eat their own rather than let the humans get hold of them?” And also video of the same squid, behaving with high intelligence and curiosity with divers who were not predating on them. I had seen video of Humboldt squid tearing their fellow squid to pieces and eating them while they were being hunted by fishermen on the Sea of Cortez. His observations are careful, intense and highly-considered. Cassell thought perhaps they stopped because they found his wetsuit-clad form inedible.Ĭassell has spent much time with the squid and writes thoughtfully of the experience. The squid quit attacking as quickly as they’d begun, sparing his life. One such pack spectacularly attacked filmmaker and diver Scott Cassell with strikes of their toothy sucker-covered arms that felt like being hit with a baseball bat. They can be terrifyingly fast predators that work in wolf-like packs. ![]() ![]() Sure, octopus look cute while solving a Rubik’s Cube, but Humboldt squid, the next-largest squid to the elusive giant squid, are feared as “red devils” or “demons” by fishermen in the Sea of Cortez. But Aren’t Octopus and Squid Inhuman and Evil? If intelligence is defined as “the capacity to learn,” these animals learn in a very different way than we humans: a mysterious process we are only now beginning to comprehend. Right?Ĭoleoids, including octopus, squid and cuttlefish could be as “smart” as, or much “smarter” than humans, no matter how we might choose to assess or evaluate “smartness.” That means there’s nothing going on upstairs, and they’re just squishy sea-meat. The squid’s brain is a donut wrapped around its esophagus. In the UK / AUS they spell “esophagus” oesophagus.
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