Giant squid?? opinion please.?

Question

i need two peoples opinion on this for a class project. any help is GREATLY appreciated.

What group of invertebrates does the giant squid belong to? What traits does it share with this group? Do you think, given this information, that it would be realistic to think an animal of this kind would attack whales? Could those stories be true?
The scientists from the New Zealand excursion were not able to keep the baby squids alive. Why do you think it would be hard to keep an animal like this alive?

Answer 1

a film crew recently captured a giant on tape they are real and yes they attack whales ..whales have scars some a foot wide on teeth from suction cups all over their bodies

Answer 2

> What group of invertebrates does the giant squid belong to?
They're mollusks. Marine mollusks.

> What traits does it share with this group?
Soft body, similar gill structure, etc.

> it would be realistic to think an animal of this kind would attack whales?
Nope, absolutely not. It's the other way around. Sperm whales attack giant squids. The giant squid will fight back, of course, but won't win.

> Why do you think it would be hard to keep an animal like this alive?
We don't understand the life cycle of these creatures. They live in the deeps, in water that is cold and under pressure. We don't know exactly what it is they eat normally. We don't know about their social situations.

Even smaller squid do not thrive in captivity. They tend to panic in a tank, ink up the place, and just die.

Answer 3

The giant squid comes from the same family as octopi and squid. Cephelopods. They are known to attack whales, scientists have seen evidence of the fact by wounds on the backs of whales. These animals are used to living deep in the ocean where the pressures are high and most do not do well out of that high pressure situation.

Answer 4

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Coleoidea
Order: Teuthida
Suborder: Oegopsina
Family: Architeuthidae
Genus: Architeuthis

In December 2005, the Melbourne Aquarium in Australia paid AUD$100,000 for the intact body of a giant squid, preserved in a giant block of ice, which had been caught by fishermen off the coast of New Zealand's South Island earlier in the year.

because they were so small and hard to get to live apove water

Answer 5

the giant squid would be related to the octopus in the Architeuthidae family. they have several legs, large eyes, hard bony mouths like a parrot's beak, and use their rams to bring food to their mouths. there are eye witness accounts of giant squids attacking and killing whales and at least one person. these are relatively recent occurrences, so I have no reason to doubt them. they are probably hard to keep alive because they are used to greater pressure from deeper in the sea. the conditions at the depths they spend most of their lives at would be hard to replicate.