Jumbo Squid Flash, Flail in First Ever Squid-cam Video

Jumbo Squid Flash, Flail in First Ever Squid-cam Video

See the Squid Photo Gallery at National Geographic: N.G.'s Squid Photo Gallery

        "To measure the strength of a jumbo squid's bite, the team caught a squid at the surface and inserted a Kevlar pressure plate into its mouth—which the squid promptly bit in half. Kevlar is 20 times stronger than steel, according to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

The preliminary reading indicated the jumbo squid had a bite force of more than a thousand pounds (more than 455 kilograms)—stronger than the killer jaws of the hyena, though not quite as strong as a crocodile, according to Barr, who specializes in animal bite forces."

Humboldt Squid shipped from Dr. Gilly's Stanford Lab at M.A. May, 2010

    "The first released jumbo squid had red LED lights attached to its camera. When the squid dove deeper, other squid attacked it, perhaps because "squid appear to be able see red LED lights, and it may really piss them off," according to jumbo squid expert William Gilly, who participated in the Cannibal Squid expedition. Torn off by the attackers, the Crittercam surfaced prematurely.

For the second deployment, the team attached a camera without lights to another jumbo squid. When this Crittercam squid entered a jumbo squid swarm at around 140 feet (42 meters), the Crittercam squid began alternately flashing red and white and flaring its tentacles." - National Geographic