The Giant Squid

The Giant SquidBy Jira 7A

Teacher Ms. Cindy

The Giant Squid is from the deep dwelling squid family, AKA the Architeuthidae.

The Giant Squid is known to grow to a tremendous size.

About The Giant Squid

The average length of a female Giant Squid is 13 Meters long or 43 ft.

It weights about 276 kg and is about 610 lb

Without the Tentacles the female Giant Squids are normally about 5 meters long (16 ft)

Characteristics (Female)

The average length of a male is about 10 meters of about 30 ft.

It weights about 150 kg or 330 lb.

Characteristics (Male)

The Giant Squid feast on deep under water fish and other species of squids

They are believed to be solitary hunters because only individual Giant Squids get caught by net. They Capture there prey by grabbing it by its to long

tentacles and pulling it into its powerful beak

Diet

The Predator of a full grown Giant Squid is a Sperm Whale

Some times packs of Pilot Whales attack and feast on it to And off course we capture these squids to for food

There Predator

Pictures of the Predators

The Giant Squids live in the deep waters of the continental and island slopes.

They live around the North Atlantic ocean and others live in the pacific

Where does it Live?

Comparison between Giant Squid and the Colossal squid

Giant Squid Colossal Squid

Narrow Mantle Long Tentacles Longer but weights

less Average tentacles

Larger Mantle Tentacles slightly

shorter Weights heavier than

the Giant Squid Swiveling hooks

Giant Squid and the Colossal Squid

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_squid http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/0

8/130827-deep-sea-squid-prey-capture-ocean-animals-science/

http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/squid.html http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20

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Sources

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