Compared with sperm whales, humans are only tiny. However, people say that there is a giant squid in the ocean that can compete with sperm whales. It's a king squid. Can the king squid really compete with sperm whales? Sperm whales also like hunting king squid very much. Why does it like to deal with king squid?
1. How big is the king squid? There are many rumors about king squid on the Internet. For example, it is a giant monster in the depths of the ocean, and its tentacles can be as long as 30 meters. In fact, the king squid is really not that huge. Its longest body can only reach 13 meters, and most of them are tentacles. Its trunk is only a little more than 2 meters and its weight can only reach 280 kilograms at most. Compared with other squid and octopus, it is certainly a monster, but is it still a monster compared with sperm whales?
2. The competition between king squid and sperm whale. Another part of the rumor of the king squid is that the king squid can be evenly matched with the sperm whale and even kill the sperm whale. However, comparing the body shapes of these two creatures, the sperm whale is 18 meters long and weighs 50 tons, while the king squid is 13 meters long and weighs 280 kilograms. In this way, you should be able to see that the sperm whale is a giant creature and the king squid is just a flower show.
In the competition between sperm whales and king squid, sperm whales will have a greater advantage, and there will be no situation in which king squid hits sperm whales hard. It's hard to see that the king squid and the sperm whale are evenly matched on the Internet. The king squid is usually no match for sperm whales.
3. The relationship between sperm whales and king squid. In addition, although the relationship between sperm whales and squid is predation and prey, sperm whales also avoid the danger of extinction because of squid. In the distant ice age, many animals died out because of the sudden drop in temperature, and the creatures in the sea were also greatly affected. Among them, some relatives of sperm whales, such as beaked whales, plum whales, Nagano whales and so on. Can only starve to death because there is no food source, and the species will eventually become extinct.
On the other hand, sperm whales survived the difficult ice age by relying on squid. Why do sperm whales like to deal with king squid? One is that squid is one of the main foods of sperm whales, and the other is the result of natural selection. Sperm whales choose king squid, so they can survive to modern times.
Generally speaking, the king squid is not a rumored super giant creature, it is one of the food sources of sperm whales. The sperm whale likes to deal with the king squid so much only because it regards the king squid as the most important food.