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[@OctopusLady]

EDIT: So I just found this out -- I know that TahoeDeep and DeepSeaOddities are getting a lot of attention for releasing this footage, but the Magnapinna Archive dropped it FIRST, all the way back in January! kzbin.info/www/bejne/nnKsdoqgj9tga68 So go give them some love! And also, y'all, the magnapinna squid called me back and explained that this was just him practicing his break dancing. And now he's b-boying and windmilling and idk what else all over my Patreon: www.patreon.com/theoctopuslady and my Twitter: twitter.com/theoctopuslady Which is fine. He didn't knock over a bunch of my stuff in the process. It's cool. It's chill.

[@tootisbabootis]

i was really walking around for MONTHS thinking they were aggressive..... only to find out he was just breakdancing. we DO live in a society......

[@portakalcevheri1148]

Squid breakdance!

[@snowcat9308]

Bumping this so you remember to pin this comment doofus

[@WobblesandBean]

3:55 Wow, scientists are donks to bigfin squid.

[@WestWindReborn]

He moved those arms so fast one made a bubble ring

[@bookshop7337]

Actually, I'm pretty sure the overwhelming scientific consensus is that magnapinna squids are just quirky little guys and this one was being what biologists refer to as "extra."

[@quitethenon-binaryfuss8596]

he was just "getting his sillies out" as they also say

[@leek.3671]

😂😂

[@BooTheEater]

Hes not like the other magnapinna squids!

[@-snowballbunny-5316]

He got the zoomies like what dogs get

[@ShanemanFP]

They actually have determined existence of “breaking it down sexual style” and that they are potentially quirked up white bois, with current studies into whether they are goated with the sauce.

[@bigmclargehuge8219]

Wow I am super high and this was fascinating!! 10/10 would recommend The Octopus Lady while under the influence. Legally, of course.

[@jamjustjammin4189]

me too !!

[@Linguae_Music]

Me three !!

[@TrevorsMailbox]

Me four!

[@bat6353]

I gotta remember that next time I get some.

[@frufrujabenderps]

me six?

[@Ett.Gammalt.Bergtroll]

I dunno. If you look at the body rather than the tentacles it really looks/behaves identically to the other videos of squiddies getting blown around by the turbulence of the vehicle. I still think that’s what’s going on.

[@freewilly1193]

Also looks like it is attempting to reverse course before the filaments change course wildly. The big difference could simply be the orientation of turbines on the ROV.

[@Ett.Gammalt.Bergtroll]

@@freewilly1193 In the end, I just hope it is OK. They look so fragile and squishy. 😢

[@benjammin9745]

The ROV messed that helpless squid up. Simple as that.

[@Ett.Gammalt.Bergtroll]

@@benjammin9745 It looks like it swam away and escaped safely towards the end, thankfully.

[@WobblesandBean]

It looks like it's trying to escape, poor thing. :/

[@vantharion]

Here's something that wasn't mentioned: What if this is a defense/survival technique? With it's long filliment, it could flail them around as a way to confuse a would be predator?

[@MagnapinnaArchive]

As far as we know, the filaments are pretty delicate and don't have much muscle on them to be able to deliberately move around like this! Unfortunately this poor squid was just getting caught in the turbulence of the ROV :(

[@Spring_bonnie420]

It is a magnopinna

[@Strawberrymilkdrink]

​@@MagnapinnaArchive poor bastard Science tubers: this is so scary Magnapinna: [screaming in pure distress]

[@scaper8]

​@Magnapinna Archive Do you think it may have been a combination? Using its arms and tentacles to try to flail the filaments and some got caught, or a few filaments got caught and this one misinterpreted it as a predator and tried to manipulate the rest as a deterrent? It certainly looks like some turbulence action, but also somewhat different from those we've seen before.

[@herbertkeithmiller]

That was my thought also. Like an animal bristling its fur or a bird raising its wings to look larger and more menacing.

[@goldman77700]

Squid looks less menacing when it's attacking or moving imo. When it's just standing stilling, it looks like the stuff of nightmares. Similar to how people have an ideal facial angle when having their picture taken.

[@neolexiousneolexian6079]

It's spooky af when standing still, but the idea that it has active control of the filaments is also pretty scary.

[@Adventist1997]

Now imagine being tangled by it and drowned before it eats you.

[@tonydai782]

@@Adventist1997 You’d be killed by the pressure long before you drown lmao

[@serasniketa9128]

“you’d best step off, ROV, or you’re gonna catch these filaments” 🤣🤣🤣

[@noctyd9322]

Something i think is noteworthy is how still the "snow" is until the squid starts moving. I don't get the impression that squid has enough mass to whip all that snow in all the directions that it does. It seems that there is some kind of water movement going on that's manipulating it in part. It might be just trying to right itself in the turbulence.

[@SpadesNeil]

Based on the marine snow floating around nearby, I am very certain that this was current hitting the squid. In still water like that, current can travel quite some distance. The water got VERY turbulent when the squid got jostled around.

[@ImMimicute]

Yea a lot of the movement of the snow also followed with the movement in the filaments which serves to bolster this theory, though I do really like the idea that it can shrink, elongate, and control its filaments at will like some kind of eldritch spear fishing squid

[@sanicdehedghoug]

Looking at the whole video, you can also see how the filaments look really blue when they're not in the light, I think the perceived shortening of its appendages might just be a combination of the current moving part of the long filament out of the light and compression artifacts rendering the already hard to see part invisible.

[@RJ-cy7kn]

@@sanicdehedghoug I think that's what is happening. I watched this on my TV in the living room which is a lot bigger than my computer monitor. On the TV you can see the filaments dropping down out of the light and fading into the background and almost becoming invisible. So when the "attack" happens, you can see on the TV that a few of the longer filaments are definitely caught in the rover somehow. And when the last filament shoots out towards the rover, it's actually just getting whipped back up into the light and then comes loose.

[@WorldWeave]

My three theories…most of which are jokes 1) it’s having a stroke 2) it got a case of the zoomies 3) this is just how they swim when they’re not “hunting”

[@devonmmi]

i vote zoomies

[@ButterflySeraph612]

For some reason (and this could be me completely misinterpreting what's happening on camera), it looks like the squid was SWIMMING AWAY. If it was, lord knows what it WAS, but idk, it's interesting because it could be a potential explanation for that filament acting all jabby: a way to attack or at least intimidate whatever the frick scared it. Of course, as you said, we need SO MUCH MORE EVIDENCE, but...wow, these squids, man

[@Strix2031]

Could be bait too,maybe they offer one of the limp tentacles so the predator eats it and leaves the main body get away PS: Probably not because they dont seem to regrow or at least we have seen a 2 with missing filaments but like whats that spindly weak tentacle supposed to do to a predator

[@DustyHoney]

Their natural environment is dark, their predators wouldn’t be able to see their crazy filaments. Their filaments don’t have great mobility (other than being able to curl up) so they move really weird all the time.

[@isaacargesmith8217]

From what it sounds like the machine itself may have accidentally started sucking it in, you can see one of its fillaments get kinda sucked in and partially broken off in the video as its trying to get away.

[@dylanrambow2704]

There's also a chance the squid was afraid of the rov and trying to make itself look big and threatening as a defense mechanism. Lots of sea animals do that.

[@TheWonkster]

So a creature that lives in almost complete darkness was performing a visual intimidation display? Why would it know to do that?

[@dylanrambow2704]

Lots of sea animals have some incredible adaptations to allow them to see in the deep dark, such as tremendous eyes that let in far more light than ours, echo location, and bioluminescence. The colossal squid, for example, has the largest eyes of any animal on the planet. @@TheWonkster

[@eesachariwala2145]

He’s amazing, a novel blend of modern dance and breakdancing… loving the vids, please keep em coming.

[@eesachariwala2145]

Wow this is the first time a creator liked my comment, thx sm

[@Emelineeeeeee]

Could it be that the rov’s propellors caused a “suction” which pulled the filaments in, and the squid panicked and swam away, with its filements still sucked into the current?

[@WobblesandBean]

That's what it looks like to me.

[@ic4192]

That’s exactly what it looks like to me

[@sweatergod5386]

Finally been looking for this comment

[@pastellemonramune]

That’s one thing that I was thinking. I just don’t believe that such a calm little (not little) guy could attack like that.

[@PsilocybePsientist]

Except for the fact that like was said in the video, for the ROV to acquire the shot of the squid (which is 40-50 feet long) you have to be a pretty large distance away to capture it, The ROV isn't anywhere near the squid.

[@mjp152]

I'm quite convinced that if you call up a magnapinna squid you would only heard screams on the other end.

[@benadrylgelllzzz5724]

I think it would be like anxiety nervous screams

[@snakewithapen5489]

@@benadrylgelllzzz5724 the poor squid's brain bending trying to comprehend this noisemaking glowing device beyond all recognition

[@dead1097]

I hope you got to see the new footage from 4/4/2023 by Schmidt Ocean's ROV! It's so detailed and wow!!!!! To me looks like he is already missing one of his long tendrils, so that's also something to note if that's not just a trick of the light!

[@OctopusLady]

Yes, I did see the footage! And yes, I did notice this squid was missing one of it's filaments! There have been sightings of other magnapinna squid missing a filament, too, and they raise that arm up, sort of perpendicular to their body, which this squid was also doing! For some reason. They have no idea why they do that! (Source: journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0241066#pone.0241066.s004 )

[@hetalianotaku7103]

If that's true, maybe that would explain his reaction. That he lost it in an encounter with a more predatory animal and wasn't interested in losing another. I wouldn't necessarily say he was attacking, but it does give the impression that he's trying to intimidate in some way. But this is all just non-marine biologist me!

[@neolexiousneolexian6079]

​@@OctopusLady Cephalopods don't have proprioception, right? Instinctively trying to support the weight of a filament on an arm that's missing that filament would result in it being raised.

[@IGameChangerI]

I think there are two things going on: the jostling of the body by the current (likely ROV generated) and the shooting out/rapid retracting of the tentacles as you've pointed out. To me it almost looks like it's trying to grasp a "foothold" to steady itself, or attempting to use its tentacles to swim. Either way she is scary and I love her for it. They're unsettling looking animals and that's what makes them so intriguing. Those tentacles are *so* long! It's uncanny!

[@kyrab7914]

That was my thought too, its body sort of follows that one weird acting filament.

[@pure_edan3972]

The thing I’m most excited about is seeing how quickly those filaments can retract! Even in T-pose positions it’s just like ZOOP! And it’s fully retracted!

[@bennettssciencechannel2563]

I LOVE MAGNAPINNA SQUIDS!

[@ftlengineer]

I think this is a self-defense movement of some sort. It flails the filaments around and moves erratically to confuse predators as to where the squid itself is.

[@redmegarex]

this makes bigfins so much less scary in my opinion because it looks *hilarious*

[@THarSul]

I realize ms.Octopus lady probably wont see this, but Im one of the people who thought it was pulled into a prop on tahoedeep’s reupload, and the reason i think that is because the rov is coming at it from below; you can tell by the fact that it shows the depth decreasing at the top of the screen; which means the rov was pulling the volume of water the squid was in down towards it in order to move upward in the water column, and i believe the behavior we see the squid exhibiting isnt it trying to attack the rov, but instead, i think the little ring of pink material, that we see rise from the lower left of the screen right after the squid’s tentacles seem to be attacking the rov, is a piece of one of its tentacles that had been sucked all the way into the prop, being destroyed in the process, at which point the squid’s tentacles were caught in the flow of the vortex created by the props, and the rapid motion of the tentacle is the squid fighting desperately to break free of the vortex.

[@isaidromerogavino8902]

You have convinced me, your explanation makes a lot of sense. Also, It makes for a stronger case the use of the ROV onscreen data. Congrats It makes me feel kinda wrong to even judge animal behavior. Seeing how much of a difference it makes to assume one thing over another in my reaction to it: going from being totally terrified of it, to feeling bad about the poor baby being hurt.

[@THarSul]

@@isaidromerogavino8902 right? poor thing. i always try to think about it from the animal's point of view, where in this case, a big concerning whirring thing, bringing blinding light into their dark habitat, came over and bit their tentacle off, so they just want to get away, back to their quiet darkness, away from the bright noisy painful thing that clearly wants to eat them. makes me feel bad for these poor creatures that we accidentally hurt with our clumsy curiosity, cause we don't mean them any harm, but our machines can injure them more easily than we realize. i just hope the squid was able to get away and heal up, but injuries can be deadly to animals, not just from infection, but from predation, cause blood in the water can be a death sentence if there are sharks nearby.

[@isaidromerogavino8902]

@@THarSul definitely, I always try to imagine that these ROVers aren't using blinding lights to film those animals which couldn't be more used to darkness. Maybe they used infrared lights in this case, but given the detail and color on the video, I'm guessing they didn't (I believe the older videos, those looking kinda creepy-green around an oil rig over the GoM, were actually filmed like that) I have no idea what's the amount of damage that some squishy animal like this one could handle before being deadly wounded. Probably the rotors on a ROV are more than enough to do so, but I have this unscientific notion about these type of animals, something tells me they're actually very resilient as long as they keep the "bell-shaped" part of their bodies safe. I guess it will be favorable to my state of mind to hold on to this belief, and no fact-check it.

[@THarSul]

@@isaidromerogavino8902 lol, agreed, let us believe the squid got away and will live a long and happy squiddy life.

[@Zhagg1]

The marine snow/ plankton movement is markedly different when the squid is extra active. Something seems to be affecting the surrounding water as well.

[@jp-wc4ce]

what if..... this particular squid has encountered a ROV before, got caught up in the thrusters, and learned to see them as a threat? 👀 obviously there's like a million to one chance but I like to think about it, that's my theory 😂

[@tux_duh]

I don't think they can see, they live in pitch black so it would be hard to detect the ROV

[@WobblesandBean]

It looks like it's trying to escape. I don't see how this is scary.

[@eadgyth5009]

​@@tux_duhthe thrusters on the rov will cause disturbances in the water, kind of like how a housefly can feel the air move in front of your hand. Filaments are pretty sensitive so maybe it detected that.

[@suruxstrawde8322]

@@tux_duh Oddly, to my knowledge there’s not a single deep sea cephalopod species that can’t see. They always seem to go the opposite route, and develop some of the biggest, most sensitive eyes on the animal kingdom, just to spot a glowing shrimp or something.

[@coryzilligen790]

@@eadgyth5009 "Filaments are pretty sensitive so maybe it detected that." Are they, though? Remember, researchers have intentionally bumped ROVs into the filaments before, and each time, it drew no reaction from the squid.

[@VoidHugger]

i LOVE the way that squids and jellyfish get caught in currents because they look so confused and helpless (as long as they leave safely)

[@lughd5578]

I think that this guy simply had a bad case of possessed by spaghetti

[@Mo31452]

I don't know what it is doing there. All I know is the footage of it happily flapping its glorious fins and moving "normally" (whatever that means for an organism we have so little footage of) brings me great joy. As does your commentary 😂

[@nomaanhaque1704]

Maybe this could be called an intimidation tactic. The erratic movement with the shimmering filaments is sure to spook any nearby fish that are interested in taking a chomp off of his spaghetti legs. But that would also piint to them having much more control over those filaments. Maybe even utilzing them like an antenna when they truly need to make a safe getaway. Thanks for a cool video. Take my subscribe.

[@k.k.glider6212]

Look at the particulate matter in the water - it stays still for a while and as soon as the squid moves the particulate also moves violently - no way the squid's thing lanky legs can generate all that current. The squid is just caught up in turbulence and is trying to stabilize itself.

[@530862]

woaah spageddy attack

[@enothewizard]

Dude's just doing a little dance lol

[@GrimIkatsui]

1. It's not caught up in the current. You can see the current by watching the marine snow. 2. The ROV is further back, but it's close enough for contact just before the magnapinna acts up. 3. In the previous videos you showed contact was around the fin but here it was the tips of the filaments.

[@WatchYur6]

Maybe it got jump scared??? I'm unsure if they have the ability to ink but maybe they bug the heck out when startled? Kinda funny kinda weird, all fascinating... love watching the videos keep it up!!😊

[@pyalot]

It is quite hard to tell how far the ROV is from the squid because we dont know what the cameras FOV is. It could be a wide angle lens, so the ROV might be quite close. The sudden erratic movement is definitely a current it got swept up in, most likely caused by the ROV. There is this particularly strange movement of this one arm, that does not look like it is caused by the current. Like something is at the end of the arm, but there does not seem to be. Maybe a fish just outside of the light took a nibble on an arm…

[@sweatergod5386]

I think the arm got snagged in the machine

[@neolexiousneolexian6079]

A wide angle lens would cause significant distortion. Those filaments look pretty parallel and pretty rectilinear.

[@pyalot]

@@neolexiousneolexian6079 Towards the right edge of the frame it looks pretty distorted.

[@PsilocybePsientist]

@@sweatergod5386 Except for the fact that like was said in the video, for the ROV to acquire the shot of the squid (which is 40-50 feet long) you have to be a pretty large distance away to capture it, The ROV isn't anywhere near the squid.

[@jaschabull2365]

3:56: Now I'm just picturing the sub operators driving the ROV up to the squid and going, "Bother, bother, bother!" like in Harry Potter's Puppet Pals, ha ha! Cool to stumble on your channel. Gotta say, I appreciate that your avatar doesn't have incorrect mouth placement!

[@spencerluchs5202]

Love your channel so much!!!! Your videos and so well researched, and it's clear how dedicated you are to providing the most accurate, up-to-date information (which as a marine bio nerd, warms my lil heart). Your passion for the subject always comes through and the vibes are just genuinely IMMACULATE!! So sooo glad I discovered you through tiktok

[@AK-en9gd]

Just a silly string guy being a goof. I love him

[@kinzobean6468]

I'm glad I found your channel!! Been on a binge ❤ Your videos are informative and entertaining and I love the lengths you go to in order to credit artists! Looking forward to more content 🎉

[@xavier84623]

I watched it a bunch of times and it really looks like there is just a bit of the tentacle caught on the rov, and the squid is caught up in the turbulence. You can see the moment the end of the tentacle snaps free and the squid tumbles away. Also at the beginning of the clip as the camera scrolls down the tentacles are extremely close and seem to almost hit the camera or fly beneath it.

[@PsilocybePsientist]

Except for the fact that like was said in the video, for the ROV to acquire the shot of the squid (which is 40-50 feet long) you have to be a pretty large distance away to capture it, The ROV isn't anywhere near the squid.

[@xavier84623]

​@@PsilocybePsientist that doesnt really track, im pretty sure you dont fully understand exactly all the optics involved in this situation. in fact, the video evidence already presented at 2:54 kinda proves you wrong. and again, you can see the tentacles seem to almost hit the camera 0:20, it seems very plausible one got caught on the rov. also, you can see the particles of marine snow begin to rush past as the rov quickly accelerates away. so either it chased them while wildly spinning out of control but at the same time perfectly matching their speed, or it was caught on the rov...

[@foozlebagel7488]

I'm so glad I got recommended your channel! I can't wait to watch every one of your videos

[@reem_baby8362]

YES!!! i’m so excited abt this video!! when i saw this footage i always thought it was flicking its filaments at the ROV to “scare” it away or something but idk. luv this video :3

[@Strawberrymilkdrink]

Damn bro got blinded, had his arms damn near ripped off and blasted Into the abyss and HES the scary one 😂😂😂

[@TRIPPSKIP]

i think it's so silly that when these squid get discombobulated they just kind of ragdoll

[@ataaamic6321]

Idk how I fell into your community but the vibes have been immaculate You are one of my favorite science-y channels

[@BinaryArmorOnline]

I discovered your channel like 15 minutes ago from the first spaghetti squid video and you do not understand how happy it is for me to discover a sequel

[@theperfectbotsteve4916]

hes just floating there. MENACINGLY!

[@LightBlueVans]

I found your channel yesterday and I literally cannot stop watching your videos. Where have you been hiding??? Your channel IS AMAZING

[@spacer7205]

i think it's possible that the light from the ROV plays a role in the effect here. the ROV is presumably braking, which is producing vortices that the squid is getting caught up in, and this filament just happened to be caught in the right way to keep it stable. the filament is also not really shortening - it has a distinct 'end' that perceptibly wobbles, which is only visible as the squid gets to a certain distance and the light from the ROV illuminates it whatever's going on, i hope that little guy had fun

[@ic4192]

This definitely was the squid being caught by the ROV’s turbine OR an external current(possibility occurred to me due to the sudden turbulence shown by the marine snow). Watch the footage at the end. The squid’s body and all of its filaments are shooting in the opposite direction of the camera, trying to flee, while that one filament is being pulled toward the camera by an unseen force. It also explains the retracting/unretracting filament. It was probably trying to retract the filament to get away from whatever was dragging it away but the current or suction was so strong it couldn’t.

[@PsilocybePsientist]

Except for the fact that like was said in the video, for the ROV to acquire the shot of the squid (which is 40-50 feet long) you have to be a pretty large distance away to capture it, The ROV isn't anywhere near the squid. I doubt the rov's turbines could create enough turbulence as to catch the squid up in them. Ocean current seems more likely.

[@jamescritchlow3445]

It looks to me that what is going on here is that the squid was moving away from the ROV so the end of the filament was closer to the ROV. Then the ROV got to close and the filament got caught in the ROV and started to shake it around a little bit. This was probably enough to scare the squid into running away. I think the movement you were pointing out in the video was just the filament moving in and out of the light as it was still tangled in the ROV. This is all speculation though and like you said we will need a lot more video to know what is going on for sure.

[@iwillsmiteyall]

“I am confident that I don’t know” imma use that shit.

[@riven9179]

Maybe he’s just having a dance party

[@otterphonics]

There's a really interesting moment about halfway thru the freak out. Follow the tentacle on the left. It looks like it's caught by something behind the screen, but you'll notice that the video somehow managed to fail to capture the middle of the arm and it looks like it's disappeared. But keep watching. It hasn't, because more of the visible part comes back into view, letting you know that there's a lot of the squid that is well past the camera. IMHO, it's an entanglement.

[@redtexan7053]

It looks like it was just trying to frighten or confuse a potential threat. Notice how it goes for the escape after only a few seconds of waving its arms around.

[@noctembra]

Slightly off topic, but it's refreshing to see someone say "I don't know" as a complete answer, factoring in the importance of further research in a topic! I'm intrigued to see more footage of these guys!

[@djcatboy6979]

new comfort channel fr

[@angel21047]

great work!

[@chesneymigl4538]

The flapping pinna seem to make it a big-fin squid catching a smaller one. But given their size, small might be an understatement.

[@Capt_Caveman205]

Just found you. Watched your video on siphonaphores...or how ever you spell it. It was great. One of my favorite parts was what you said about Hawaii and its occupation and its ppl. That just made me even more certain that i had to subscribe. Now im watching the 2nd video of yours ive ever found and im really looking forward to it.

[@SuperLoopholes]

I think what's most likely is that it's a defensive display to scare away or just confuse any potential predators.

[@retrodoodlez4535]

It reminds me of fly fishing. Maybe it’s spreading out to scope if there’s any more food before moving locations, hopefully more footage and research can help deep dive into their behaviors.

[@WyrdNexus_]

Love the candor of, "I'm certain only that I don't know..." I'm borrowing that one.

[@leosv838]

oml that line "You'd best step off, ROV, or you're gonna catch these filaments" SENT me

[@moohooman]

I remember watching the original footage of this squid when I was a teenager and just thinking, how is this just im the ocean and no one is talking about it or trying to find more about them. It was the most interesting thing I had ever seen from the ocean since finding out that Krakens are pretty much confirmed real, obviously not attacking ships, but squids with heads larger than people

[@snoozlewoozle]

I love your emphasis on proper credit! Tiktok made people forget about human decency, it's refreshing to see

[@trashdan1661]

Never thought a game where squid people shoot each other would get me interested in Marine life.

[@emilyscratchcat7103]

Idk why, but it looks like it had the underwater equivalent of a really big sneeze.😂

[@midori_the_eldritch]

if the tentacles were retracting, it could either be an attempt to stabilize itself (changing size can majorly change spin, and help catch/escape wakes and currents), part of eating (moving the food/nutrients closer to center mass quicker once the tentacle is "full") or both. also as other people said it may be part of how they move.

[@NotaArtist]

Okay but like they are so gorgeous and majestic I adore these things I can't wait to learn more about how they live

[@coryman125]

"I'm confident that I don't know what's going on" I really wish more people had that mindset! The true scientific approach, not making wild conclusions from limited data

[@41052]

Definitely a current. No way it’s body could move like that and would move it’s body like that. Genuinely thought the whole time he was being spun around his things were gonna get knotted.

[@katherinel8661]

Looks the way an anxiety attack feels.

[@heathermcfarland6317]

Maybe this squid 🦑 was just having a really bad day, and the ROV ramming into it multiple times was the straw that broke the camels back.

[@ametrinefirebird7125]

Great perspective!

[@homeopathicfossil-fuels4789]

Either defense, or a communication attempt. I really think this is a communication attempt, like some crazy squid shuffle dance of "Hello got a spare nickel?"

[@ulycas]

love your vids

[@Emerald_Raven08]

I personally like the theory that it's a combination of things, it tried to defend itself from the rov by moving all weird to confuse it but ended up getting caught in the current and tossed around

[@mr.grantelkade4073]

This really looks like a play of light where you have the light cone slightly above the camera middle and when the tentacles are below they seem to vanish, and when they come up again the show again. That’s what I would get of that.

[@empmachine]

Just looking at the nearby snow makes for a good turbulence metric (IMHO). and yea, funny that one tentacle got pulled down a vortex like that.. what're the chances? also, being the type to spend loads of time staring at the top of some black coffee, I can say with confidence that: vortexes happen A LOT with fluids (you drink your coffee black by chance? in the right light it's beautiful!)

[@cheecheneg]

Casual Geographic described it well as “a T-posing squid”.

[@AquilaCat]

The two things that stuck out the most to me was that while it's being "extra" there's one point where it retracts a tentacle and then shoots it out again off to the side, and then the body appears to follow that tentacle. Looked like it was using the drag from the retraction and shooting out to move itself along quickly. The other thing was that its body keeps getting further away from the ROV after all that. Not sure if it's fleeing, or attacking with body at safe distance, or if it was just trying to stablize itself after a current, but it's still neat.

[@brickwall4362]

ITS SO ADORABLE!❤

[@steelgreyed]

She's a maniac, maniac, dancing on the flow, and she's dancing like we've never seen before.

[@Andrew-qw1kq]

Okay, that reminds me of something I've seen from an octopus in a tide pool. My kids had found it and were just pointing towards it and it extended one tenticle towards the finger - my take was out was measuring distance and got them to give it space. I would have done that anyway but I was also thinking we could have an octopus climbing up someone's arm situation. While it's not scientific I think it was curious - it wasn't cornered it could have pulled back a lot deeper into the rocks. That's what I think that was, I think it was extending one appendage because it was curious and I think they get a lot of information from touch. The RV backing up then probably caused it to flip from curious to fuck it, it's weird now I'm out.

[@uiytresen346]

Do they hear? Imagine hearing the roar of motors and feeling shockwaves from working turbines, when all you know in life is flap wings and scoop water grass. Bud is probably cardogging.

[@lohphat]

Simple question: If the squid were attacking what also must be true of its physiology to allow that perceived motion to occur? I concur there’s not enough data but for that to have been a move of aggression or pursuit, other thing must also be true which would seem unlikely.

[@maxtomchris]

Honestly, looking closely at the Squid before its reaction, I noticed the right most tentacle seemed to be - jerked shortly before it freaked out. So my thought is that something tugged at it's filament offscreen and the Magnapinna freaked out and reacted like that to scare away predators.

[@RamadaArtist]

Ten minutes ago I didn't know how much I needed someone to just, keep me updated, on these dangly boys. Now I am enlightened and know otherwise.

[@JohnDoe-xj6mf]

I see something dark and large off in the distance. From the center of the screen half way to th. I also saw a circle of bubbles that jet up from the bottom out of frame. I am also enjoying your videos thank you!

[@alsid_]

When that squid suck into sudden flow, filaments could be tangled. In that situation, if making some filaments shorten might prevent tangling. But if shortening filament take energy and hard to keep long time, it could be seen as extending while filament just back to thier original length.

[@sagedeen4180]

That phone call killed me

[@insert_name4613]

You: peacefully eating on top of a staircase.(for some reason) Invisible alien:pushes you off said staircase. You:flail around, trying to stop moving, or duck and roll. Invisible alien:"omg! Why is it trying to attack me?"

[@NecroGoblin-yl2fx]

if you look really close you can see that two times it hits the camera :D if it attacks it or just want to see what it is i don't know.

[@sagenecro]

imagine it just chilling and then it goes psycho like that on ur face

[@notemaker3000]

TBH I think it’s just angsty and doesn’t want to go to its room and it’s throwing a fit

[@bloxxed420]

man looks ready to throw hands at any moment

[@minthantlin9168]

When I saw it, the moment it started getting weird, it felt like the latter half of the filaments just magically appeared out of nowhere and it just started shooting em out like it was pretending to be Spiderman. Also, the filament you talked about got out the first time and it looked like it was caught in something before it got released and shot it out the second time. Filaments magically appearing 0:25 First and second time shooting 0:34 - 0:45

[@belliebun4529]

Dude looked more like he was trying to run away from something than anything else.

[@foureyesisafish7968]

As a lot of other people are pointing out, this is probably due to the water, rather than the squid. …meaning the squid’s having the rollercoaster ride of its life

[@MrMetalMichael]

What if it's a defence mechanism because the only big fins we've seen is ROV'S that seemingly distract them, so the flailing of the filaments could distract from the actual body itself as it escapes