Comments on: What does a squid feel like – according to Emma http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2008/04/30/what-does-a-squid-feel-like-according-to-emma/ Our place, our voices Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:26:52 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: pamelalovis http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2008/04/30/what-does-a-squid-feel-like-according-to-emma/#comment-3209 pamelalovis Sat, 06 Dec 2008 10:01:47 +0000 http://tepapa.wordpress.com/?p=310#comment-3209 Hi Jordy Great to here from you and hope your school project is going ok. You can get a picture of the colossal squid as we think she'd look like alive on the front of Te Papa's "What's On" brochure for December. Also watch out for our new website all about the colossal squid which you'll be able to see from a week today, on Sat 13 December - with loads more pictures of the squid and heaps of info. Hope you like it! Pamela Hi Jordy
Great to here from you and hope your school project is going ok. You can get a picture of the colossal squid as we think she’d look like alive on the front of Te Papa’s “What’s On” brochure for December.

Also watch out for our new website all about the colossal squid which you’ll be able to see from a week today, on Sat 13 December – with loads more pictures of the squid and heaps of info. Hope you like it!

Pamela

]]> By: Jordy http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2008/04/30/what-does-a-squid-feel-like-according-to-emma/#comment-3198 Jordy Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:49:46 +0000 http://tepapa.wordpress.com/?p=310#comment-3198 Hi im doing an inquiry on the colossus squid for school it would be helpful if you had some coool pics and stuff like broshers that i could use????? COLOSSUS SQUIDS ARE AWESOME!!! P.S ur website was awesome help i found out loads!!!!! :) :) :) Hi im doing an inquiry on the colossus squid for school it would be helpful if you had some coool pics and stuff like broshers that i could use????? COLOSSUS SQUIDS ARE AWESOME!!! P.S ur website was awesome help i found out loads!!!!! :) :) :)

]]> By: chrispaulin http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2008/04/30/what-does-a-squid-feel-like-according-to-emma/#comment-1360 chrispaulin Thu, 08 May 2008 06:10:17 +0000 http://tepapa.wordpress.com/?p=310#comment-1360 The squid smell is nothing . . . try Anton's whale if you want a real olfactory experience! (Mind you, we don't try to use public transport ;-) The squid smell is nothing . . . try Anton’s whale if you want a real olfactory experience!
(Mind you, we don’t try to use public transport ;-)

]]> By: Emma http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2008/04/30/what-does-a-squid-feel-like-according-to-emma/#comment-596 Emma Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:38:35 +0000 http://tepapa.wordpress.com/?p=310#comment-596 Hello! I was very excited to get to work this morning to see if anyone else had posted messages - thank you Chris P for answering the tricky ones from Uschi. As for the smell - well, you don't notice it so much in the room but driving home I had to have the car window down! Hello!

I was very excited to get to work this morning to see if anyone else had posted messages – thank you Chris P for answering the tricky ones from Uschi.
As for the smell – well, you don’t notice it so much in the room but driving home I had to have the car window down!

]]> By: Michelle, Cedric, Abbey & Cole http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2008/04/30/what-does-a-squid-feel-like-according-to-emma/#comment-588 Michelle, Cedric, Abbey & Cole Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:08:46 +0000 http://tepapa.wordpress.com/?p=310#comment-588 Just wanted to say thanks for the great description of what the squid felt like. We have been fascinated in our household and our 4 year old is now a squid geek! Thanks again, you have all done a great job. Will look forward to visiting Te Papa to see the real thing when it is displayed. Just wanted to say thanks for the great description of what the squid felt like. We have been fascinated in our household and our 4 year old is now a squid geek!

Thanks again, you have all done a great job. Will look forward to visiting Te Papa to see the real thing when it is displayed.

]]> By: Raphael D. http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2008/04/30/what-does-a-squid-feel-like-according-to-emma/#comment-486 Raphael D. Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:30:26 +0000 http://tepapa.wordpress.com/?p=310#comment-486 Well thank you for this very nice description. I think that you guys do a great job and I just wanted to say thanks to the photographer, the pictures are awesome. PS: I am cool. Well thank you for this very nice description.
I think that you guys do a great job and I just wanted to say thanks to the photographer, the pictures are awesome.

PS:
I am cool.

]]> By: chrispaulin http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2008/04/30/what-does-a-squid-feel-like-according-to-emma/#comment-484 chrispaulin Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:08:30 +0000 http://tepapa.wordpress.com/?p=310#comment-484 The specimen is in good condition because it was blast frozen when it was fresh - and it came out of antarctic water, so there was little chance for decay. It has remained in good condition because of the sheer size of the bodymass which has stayed frozen in the core for over 48 hours! The specimen is in good condition because it was blast frozen when it was fresh – and it came out of antarctic water, so there was little chance for decay. It has remained in good condition because of the sheer size of the bodymass which has stayed frozen in the core for over 48 hours!

]]> By: Nicki Emma, Rich and Zac http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2008/04/30/what-does-a-squid-feel-like-according-to-emma/#comment-483 Nicki Emma, Rich and Zac Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:00:46 +0000 http://tepapa.wordpress.com/?p=310#comment-483 Hi Emma You have just achieved celebrity status in our household, I bet you were relieved that they could get the sucker off, althought it would have made an interesting talking point, cheers Nicki Hi Emma
You have just achieved celebrity status in our household, I bet you were relieved that they could get the sucker off, althought it would have made an interesting talking point,
cheers Nicki

]]> By: Uschi http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2008/04/30/what-does-a-squid-feel-like-according-to-emma/#comment-482 Uschi Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:57:55 +0000 http://tepapa.wordpress.com/?p=310#comment-482 Hi Emma :) Thanks for explaining so detailed what all the parts of the squeed feel like. That was very enlightening. And a big thanks to the photographer - the pics are awesome! I'm astonished at how well preserved the internal organs of the animal are. From the pictures, I can't detect any traces of decay. Did your team use a special frosting and defrosting technique to prevent tissue damage? (I'm a limnologist and occasionally do post-mortems on freshwater fish. I often get specimens that were half decayed before frosting or that started to decay while defrosting. - Not a job one would like to do immediately after breakfast ;) - If there's a good method to avoid decay I'd love to learn it!) How do these deep sea squids keep their body temperature up in the cold water? It doesn't look like they have a lot of fat tissue. LOL sorry about the many questions, but like all biologists I'm terribly curious. ;) Thanks to everyone at Te Papa for sharing the reports, pictures and data with us! =) Greetings from the other side of the globe ;) Uschi Hi Emma :)

Thanks for explaining so detailed what all the parts of the squeed feel like. That was very enlightening. And a big thanks to the photographer – the pics are awesome!

I’m astonished at how well preserved the internal organs of the animal are. From the pictures, I can’t detect any traces of decay. Did your team use a special frosting and defrosting technique to prevent tissue damage? (I’m a limnologist and occasionally do post-mortems on freshwater fish. I often get specimens that were half decayed before frosting or that started to decay while defrosting. – Not a job one would like to do immediately after breakfast ;) – If there’s a good method to avoid decay I’d love to learn it!)

How do these deep sea squids keep their body temperature up in the cold water? It doesn’t look like they have a lot of fat tissue.

LOL sorry about the many questions, but like all biologists I’m terribly curious. ;)

Thanks to everyone at Te Papa for sharing the reports, pictures and data with us! =)

Greetings from the other side of the globe ;)

Uschi

]]> By: Lara, Mila and Caleb http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2008/04/30/what-does-a-squid-feel-like-according-to-emma/#comment-480 Lara, Mila and Caleb Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:42:53 +0000 http://tepapa.wordpress.com/?p=310#comment-480 Thank you Emma, hope you smell better soon - oooh yucky! Mummy is just printing off your blog off now so I can put you into my homework journal. I have written you a poem and drawn a picture for you that Mummy will email to you later on. Love, Mila PS Mummy thinks the sucker was probably really yucky!! Thank you Emma, hope you smell better soon – oooh yucky! Mummy is just printing off your blog off now so I can put you into my homework journal.

I have written you a poem and drawn a picture for you that Mummy will email to you later on.

Love, Mila
PS Mummy thinks the sucker was probably really yucky!!

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