A Look at the Giant Squid - Cannibals or Kinky?

Until now experts believed that Giant Squid were cannibalistic. This conclusion was based on the fact that they discovered pieces of other Giant Squid in the stomachs of specimens studied.

But a new report seems to shed a new and rather different light on the behavior of this mysterious deep sea creature...

New Zealand based marine biologist Steve O'Shea theorizes that instead of a food source, the pieces of fellow squid point to some rather unusual mating methods.

According to O'Shea when mating the female squid accidentally bites off pieces of her mate and then ingests them. "It's not intentional cannibalism, it's certainly inadvertent," O'Shea told the New Zealand press.

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