Video clips upon squid captures by
female northern elephant seals. Clip 1: The seal fed on the squid Histioteuthis sp. (depth: 656 m). Clip 2: The seal fed on the squid Octopoteuthis sp. (depth: 415 m). Clip 3: The seal encountered the squid Taningia danae (at time 00:18; depth 662 m), but the squid escaped (00:21). After following the lights from the tentacles of the squid (00:26-00:34), and encountering with squid ink (00:39-00:49), the seal captured the squid (00:51), as indicated by the quick movements of the snout. In all video clips, supraorbital vibrissae of the equipped seal are visible at the right-hand side of the movies.
Kaori Yoshino, Akinori Takahashi, Taiki Adachi, Daniel P. Costa, Patrick W. Robinson, Sarah H. Peterson, Luis A. Hückstädt, Rachel R. Holser, and Yasuhiko Naito
Journal of Experimental Biology
2020. 223:None-None; doi: 10.1242/jeb.212936