Giant Squid Filmed by Scientists for First Time
TOKYO (Dec. 22) — Its mass of reddish tentacles flailing, a giant squid fought a losing battle to evade capture in a video unveiled by Japanese scientists on Friday.
Images of the squid — a relatively small female about 12 feet long and weighing 110 pounds — were the ultimate prize for zoologists at the National Science Museum, who have been pursuing one of the ocean’s most mysterious creatures for years.
“Nobody has ever seen a live giant squid except fishermen,” team leader Tsunemi Kubodera of the museum’s zoology department said in an interview on Friday. “We believe these are the first ever moving pictures of a giant squid.”
Little was known until recently about the creature thought to have inspired the myth of the “kraken,” a tentacled monster that was blamed by sailors for sinking ships off Norway in the 18th century.
Unconfirmed reports say giant squid can grow up to 60 feet long, but according to scientists they are unlikely to pose a threat to ships because they spend their lives hundreds of meters under the sea.
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Oh-oh, now they ticked off Cthulhu. They’re in for it now! 🙂
ika wa ooki desu ne
I regard this action as nefarious ,cruel and senceless kill of an animal,which deserves being harshly punished. I think that appropriate punishment for such evil deed might be life-long prohibition of scientific activity and even imprisonment. I think that all of us should reprove of this brutal murder of the marvelous,mighty and rare inhabitant of the ocean,which is apparently powerless against its preditors-humans.
the translation of the above comment into Japanese
watashi wa kono kouiwa gokuakuhidou, zankokude muimina aru doubutsu no satsugai deari, keibatsu ni ataisuru mono dato kangaemasu. konoyouna jyaakuna kouinitaishite tekisetsuna keibatsu wa(okonattakagakusyanitaishite) kagakutekicyousano muki kinnshika
syouekisuramo datoudatoomowaremasu.
watashiwa wareware subetega kono subarashiku, tsuyoku, keude, hosyokutekina ninngenntachinitaishite akirakani muryokuna kaiyouno jyuuninnno zannninnna satsuriku wo imashimeru bekidato kangaerunodesu
Ok. Thanks for the commnet as I could do some morning exercise for the Japanese language. I have completed “Japanese for Busy People 1, 2, 3, 4” and now look forward to earning some money through translation!
By the way, I thought the content of the comment was rather rigid and absolutist? I do not think the news was posted to solicit an opinion as above??
Well.,the japanese translation thingy was unspolicited either, I know. Sorry about that! I just wanted to see how it would sound in Japanese!
Any correction of the translation will be welcomed and otherwise, I wish you all a Happy New Year!!!
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with 150 wins over any machine.
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