Despite its ghoulish name and looks, the vampire squid isn't a bloodthirsty terror of the deep after all, a new study says.
Instead, the nightmarishly named species browses on "marine snow"—dead plankton, algae, fecal matter, goo, shells shed by tiny crustaceans, and other detritus.
The squid gather the food particles using two long, hair-lined filaments before wrapping the bits into meal-size mucus balls, according to undersea video footage, live lab observations of captive vampire squid, autopsies, and examination via electron microscope.
"Because of its fearsome appearance, and because all other cephalopods living today are predators, it was thought that vampire squid, too, were hunting for living prey," said study co-author Henk-Jan Hoving of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) in California.
"We have now found the opposite."
Source: National Geographic作者: vandas 時間: 2012-10-1 12:36 AM
Scientists have now uncovered the bizarre diet of the mysterious creature - and found it feast on vomit and faecal matter.
Little footage exists of the vampire jellyfish, but these stunning shots reveal the strange looking creature.
Little footage exists of the vampire jellyfish, but researchers have now been able to find out its diet.
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跟平日見的烏賊很不同似的。。。感覺真有點恐怖作者: jlt577 時間: 2012-10-5 09:36 AM
scarely.. this are awesome pictures for sharing.. thanks作者: tommy0007 時間: 2012-10-20 08:56 AM
if i swin there, i scare that.作者: scottchang18 時間: 2012-10-20 07:56 PM
真係無奇不有，但吸了的血會立即滲透到皮膚表面嗎﹖ 
