#squid mating

[sarahmackattack]

Hi! Squid are some of my favourite animals out there and I love your blog so much!

Out of curiosity, do they have any examples of neat social behaviours? Or are they mostly solitary? I think I read once that they can communicate visually with other squid. Is this true?

Yes this is true! Some squid are more social than others, totally depends on the species. Squid live super diverse lives- the smallest are the size of your pinky fingernail, the biggest as long as a schoolbus. Some live in ankle-depth water, others 3 miles below the surface. So it's hard to make any statement that applies to all of them. As far as the squid who communicate with color change, the two best studied for this behaviour are the humboldt squid and the caribbean reef squid!

I just posted this video but who cares here it is again. It's a long one but will go through all the patterns the squid express when they're mating. It's cool as hell!

And here's a good explainer for the humboldt squid visual vocabularly

Ben Burford did this painstaking work of watching video and categorizing all of these patterns. Here's an illustration of some of those patterns from his work

Another cool thing about all this is that since humboldts live in an often-dark environment, they have bioluminescence that helps them back-light these patterns!! It's sick!

#Humboldt squid #squid communication #reef squid #squid mating #squid facts

[flingza-roller]

firefly squids or something idk

#splatoon #my art #art #my ocs #suri #conure #thought of this at work and was like. heheh #we stay silly #but yeah yknow how firefly squids get all glowy n shit and gather in masses during mating season #yeah #btw suri is using auslan

[splatoon-confession-box]

I don't want male idols because splatoon is one of the few franchises with a central female cast that isn't hypersexualized and is targeted at all audiences instead of a strictly female demographic. if people want male characters so badly they can go to literally any other franchise.

#splatoon confessions #splatoon 3 #*looks around for games with a male squid idol* #*crickets* #i don't see it mate /j

[pcktknife]

it's fucked up how much is going on in an octopis head

#not mentally i mean....anatomically #ended up down a rabbit hole and ended up w like 6-7 tabs opened on cephalopod/octopi anatomy too much happening in there #they breed by stickin their mating arm in their partners heads....thats insane to me #lets see males break those arms off for the females to keep and sometimes females horde multiple arms for laying eggs at later times #sorry these little tidbits of info im learning are very fascinating #all cause i was trying to figure out why the hell inklings dont have visible siphons #octolings have them??? but like squids irl also have them and postition wise itd have to be the back of their head or their nose #but their noses dont have indents! *snapping a stick in 2* #kae.txt #best not to think abt it too much but....where are they.....

[sophietheskelly]

#THE SQUIDS #ARE #MATING #AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA #splatoon

[snailvibes]

Too lazy to retype this tweet I made

#i just think they’d be best friends and Ikkans like ‘thank FUCK they found someone else to babysit their dumbasses’ #ikkan tells them embarrassing stories about the band mates from the squid squad days and clam person tells him what stupid stuff they do now #splatoon #splatoon 2 #splatoon 3 #front roe #splatbands #splatband #splatband posting #ikkan #squid squad

[elminster-big-naturals]

so i just finished the orin duel w my durge and im gonna be honest. it was really unsatisfying and i can't put my finger on why.

#and it wasn't just because it was over in 2 turns without orin landing a single hit (monk OP btw) #also i havent checked but if bhaal killing me then withers reviving me has removed my loviater's buff i'll scream #baldur's gate 3 spoilers #idk i kind of wanted to accept since narratively it would have been satisfying (plus i ascended astarion) but hmmm #i would not be content with the bhaal endings on offer tbh (i spoiled myself on those and tbh im glad i did). idk. #tbh playing a durge who resists but ONLY because they resent giving up control has been quite unsatisfying in general #i wanna keep playing my astarion pt!!!!!!! but i need to wait until they unfuck gale. so durge it is. #anthrael #why cant i be daddy's most specialist little murder prince without squidding my mates? i'm second in command of a vampire plague :( #what do you mean i cant have my bloody cake AND eat it???????

[chaos64sprinkles]

Squidtopus In Art Pixel Animation! Serie 5

Sprinkles: Bark! Bark! Lol! Bark! (Anyway, Lol, according to the album, we have the Squidtopus, which is the inani-mate bat that is like a squid and an octopus, he is also like the Wormny and the other inani-mates that are animals that speak, but that at least they can express themselves, because in the gif he sent his Like, as he is an octopus or a squid, he can release his ink underneath which is where his mouth is, when he gets pressure or gets scared and when he did That's what he did right on top of Skullck, hahahahahahaha, poor Skullck, so old that he still bathes in paint and before the gif, I had called him to be in the bottom position without him knowing what will happen next …!)

#art #objectshow #object show art #object show #artwork #inanimate insanity #emote #emoticon #icon #piskel #pixelart #pixel art #gif #animated #animate #animation #inanimate insanity invitational #object show fanart #object show community #squidtopus #squid #octopus #skull #skullck #ink #inani mates #ii inani mates #inani mates ii #oc #ocs

[ennaih]

Every Film I Watch In 2023:

97. Ruby Gillman Teenage Kraken (2023)

#ruby gillman teenage kraken #ruby gillman teenage kraken (2023) #2023filmgifs #my gifs #inadvertent Jane Fonda double #cos i forgot she was in this #until I was like 'I KNOW THAT VOICE JANE IS THAT YOUUU' #really enjoyed that #except for them saying 'giant kraken' over and over again #like mate it's just kraken #there are no smaller versions of kraken #it's not like squid #there is just one size kraken: humongous #i like that i say this with such authority #as if i've watched docos and so much youtube footage #of kraken #flashing #flashing lights

[romanowork]

#moon #full moon #exquinox #alien #squid #mating season #lem #lovecraft #cosmic horror #surrealism #scifiart #science fantasy #fantastic planet #fantasy art #alien worlds #alien abduction #horror #squids #octopus #cthulhu #abstraction #abstract illustration #James Webb Space Telescope

[ahurumustdie]

hiiiiii ily so so soo much btw <33333

hiiiiii!!! i love you <3333

#hope you are doing splendid #im going to the museum w my best mate today - he wants to show me a squid #asks #hella tag

[hal-in-the-family]

             “Hmm... this ‘ere squid.... somethin’ is very fishy about it.” If squids can even be more fishy.

           “Fishy? Why?”

           “Aye, in all my years by the open sea, as blue as they be, I 'ave never caught one as blue as this one. Almost as blue as me ol’ coat.”

             “OOoooo ooo. ooOoo Oooo.”

             “Me mate’s right. It’s not worth the risk to make someone seasick with unknown fish.”

             “Aye aye... I will return squid where I found it.”

Looks like the blue Inkling was saved by a really close call. Back home Blue goes....

@squidsavior​

#IC Update #guest muse #CARGO DUO (SEA CAPTAIN AND OCTO MATE) #THE PART TIME UFO (JOBSKI) #saved by a non-octarian octopus #wonder how that must feel #Also Jobski probably caught Blue in squid form hence the squid confusion #squidsavior

[skeleton-squid-boy]

I absolutely cannot fathom how people are shipping carmy and syd romantically like they are so so much better platonically and I feel like they're much better fits romantically with their other interests

#so scared theyre gonna be endgame #please let me have platonic soul mates stay platonic #please. #i am begging you. #the bear #sydney #carmy berzatto #squids bullshit #🐾

[randumbness23-blog]

It has come to my attention that not only are male octopuses ¿octopi? and squids penis a shorter tentacle than the rest but they will just rip it off while in their mate so they have more time to run away and avoid being eaten.

#can you imagine #we just met #this is crazy #but heres my dick #please dont eat me #spending months looking for a mate and they steal your dick #thank you for letting me share #octopuses #squid #fun facts #octopus

[golden--flowers]

If there were biological twins you could call them womb-mates

#Oh my gosh they were womb-mates... #If they were squids you could call them woom-mates

[chaos64sprinkles]

Asset Squidtopus The Bat Serie 5

#art #objectshow #object show art #object show #artwork #inanimate insanity #piskel #pixelart #png #sprites #sprite art #bat #batwings #wings #bat wings #squid #squitopus #octopus #inani mates #ii inani mates #inani mates ii #inanimate insanity invitational #objectshows #object show fanart #object show community #asset #assets #object show asset #object show assets