Scavenging Cephalopods: Mild-Mannered Vampire Squid Just Want To Eat Waste

Wednesday, October 3, 2012 - 14:01 in Psychology & Sociology

A couple of weeks ago ago, a debate about the existence of scavenging cephalopods broke out on the cephalopod mailing list. A few days later, such a creature appeared in the news as if conjured!A grad student had e-mailed the ceph-list because he’d found a website that claimed “most cephalopods are active hunters while some are scavengers.” He couldn’t think of any scavenging cephalopods, and wanted to know if anyone else could. read more

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