That really bothered my about how the news stories were calling this animal a "monster", no its not!!, its just an animal!! If its that rare then put it back and let it live its life out, maybe put a tracker on it but to pull it out and kill it was unnecessary and inhumane. (If it was not killed then correct me if I'm wrong.)
2007-02-23 05:21:27 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Current Events
Made me mad too... They (Octopods and cephlipods) are my favorite animals... People don't realize how intelligent and sensitive they are...
Fu*ck wads! I 'd like to stick a hook in one of their mouths and drag them around tied to the back of my car for a few hours so they can see what it feels like to the animal.
2007-02-23 05:30:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because they know very little about the species, they can disect it and understand how it breathes, what it eats, how it reproduces, etc. All which can someday help keep the species alive if it becomes endangered or environmentally harmed. It sounds inhumane, but if you look at the big picture, it can help us learn more about them.
As for the "monster" tag, that is just the media. I'm sure in the marine-biology community it is not referred to as that.
2007-02-23 06:26:58 · answer #2 · answered by clone1973 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tire truck size calamari baby - it's food!
You have to remember that in that part of the ocean, its all food - and the size of the squid is only a little bit larger than what they normally drag up anyways - this just made the news because it is bigger than normal and its being shipped off to a museum for preservation and tests instead of being sold off to restaurants for food like the others are on a daily basis.
2007-02-23 05:37:06 · answer #3 · answered by MrKnowItAll 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think they used the word monster to mean it was relatively huge for the species, although giant would have been a better choice i think. I understood it was like netted already dead, not sure though.
2007-02-23 06:18:02 · answer #4 · answered by barefoot_always 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's dead
and going in a museum
"...as the squid was barely alive when it reached the surface, ministry of fisheries observers and crew thought it was unlikely to survive if released. it was then caught by manipulating it into a cargo net and taken aboard....
"...the squid is being stored at sanfords in tmaru before being transferred to te papa in wellington to be preserved for scientific study. it will be photographed, measured, tissue sampled, registered and preserved intact for the national environment collection...."
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/3971109a6010.html
2007-02-23 05:24:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well they are hard to catch and scientest been wanting to study a fresh one for a long time...they not endangered or nuthin
2007-02-23 05:31:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are not considered rare or endangered in anyway...just elusive.
2007-02-23 05:25:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I Agree it should have been left alone
2007-02-23 05:26:16 · answer #8 · answered by Mark W 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, it was not doing anybody any harm.
2007-02-23 13:59:16 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
how much callimari could you get from that!!!
2007-02-23 06:36:27 · answer #10 · answered by jademonkey 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋