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		<title>Te Papa's Blog &#187; Colossal squid</title>
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		<title>If I were a squid, how would I mate? Ask Isabella</title>
		<link>http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2009/09/17/if-i-were-a-squid-how-would-i-mate-ask-isabella/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2009/09/17/if-i-were-a-squid-how-would-i-mate-ask-isabella/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lucyhoffman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a passionate 20-armed-embrace Isabella Rosselli would say. Clad in a squid suit, Isabella explains the mating habits of our cephalopod friends in her quirky, family-friendly Green Porno series of short movies on SunDance Channel. 

I was amazed at how well she explains squid mating habits &#8211; they are quite strange and not really much like [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.tepapa.govt.nz&blog=3060992&post=4253&subd=tepapa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Loch Ness Squid on Google Earth!</title>
		<link>http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2009/08/28/loch-ness-squid-on-google-earth/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2009/08/28/loch-ness-squid-on-google-earth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:32:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lucyhoffman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colossal squid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Collosal Squid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Loch Ness Monster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Messie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nessie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weird stuff]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/?p=4039</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The blog-o-sphere is reeling today with supposed sightings of the Loch Ness Monster on Google Earth! Check it out &#8211; we wonder whether perhaps Nessie and our Colossal squid are related?
Weird co-incidence number 2 is that during the squid defrost, some of the scientists nick-named our squid &#8216;Messie&#8217; - after the scientific name Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni. 
For those [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.tepapa.govt.nz&blog=3060992&post=4039&subd=tepapa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A new giant squid specimen!</title>
		<link>http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2009/04/03/a-new-giant-squid-specimen/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2009/04/03/a-new-giant-squid-specimen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:56:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chrispaulin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colossal squid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exhibitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Giant squid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Island Bay]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A three-metre giant squid specimen washed up on a beach on Wellington&#8217;s South Coast yesterday (2nd April).
In comparison with our colossal squid it’s a bit small, but because it’s small it’s interesting! Find out about the difference between Colossal and Giant squid.
The squid was found in shallow water by Alana Spragg and her daughter Bella [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.tepapa.govt.nz&blog=3060992&post=2681&subd=tepapa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Squid &#8211; done and dusted!</title>
		<link>http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2009/03/20/squid-done-and-dusted/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2009/03/20/squid-done-and-dusted/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 04:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pamelalovis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colossal squid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gladius]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[glycol]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Breaking news from our squid fix-it team &#8211; the work is complete and we are on track to reopen the colossal squid exhibition to the public from tomorrow 21 March 2009.
Yesterday Robert Clendon our Conservator and Hutch Wilco, one of our exhibition preparators finished the last few tweaks to the squid itself. They  managed to draw the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.tepapa.govt.nz&blog=3060992&post=2502&subd=tepapa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Expect the unexpected</title>
		<link>http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2009/03/17/expect-the-unexpected/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2009/03/17/expect-the-unexpected/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 04:29:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pamelalovis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colossal squid]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/?p=2447</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The latest report on the squid work has come through from Hutch Wilco, one of our exhibition team. Hutch has been working on the squid project since May last year and has become &#8220;intimately&#8221; acquainted with the squid and its tank.
He tells me that alterations to the tank have gone very smoothly. All the new attachments [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.tepapa.govt.nz&blog=3060992&post=2447&subd=tepapa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shelley and the squid</title>
		<link>http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2009/03/13/shelley-and-the-squid/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2009/03/13/shelley-and-the-squid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 01:21:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pamelalovis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colossal squid]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[New Zealand museums and galleries had a treat this week when Shelley Bernstein, the Chief of Technology at the Brooklyn Museum in New York paid us a flying visit. This was all thanks to our generous friends at the National Library, especially Courtney Johnston.
After a thought provoking lecture on Tuesday at the National Library to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.tepapa.govt.nz&blog=3060992&post=2345&subd=tepapa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Double pumps and improved circulation</title>
		<link>http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2009/03/13/double-pumps-and-improved-circulation/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2009/03/13/double-pumps-and-improved-circulation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pamelalovis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colossal squid]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We have men at work on the squid tank again today. 


Working on the squid and its tank

I caught up with Don, one of our contractors, just before he was heading off to lunch after a hard morning&#8217;s work on the tank. 
He&#8217;s putting in a second pump and filter system into one end of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.tepapa.govt.nz&blog=3060992&post=2315&subd=tepapa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Disappearing hooks, or not?</title>
		<link>http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2009/03/12/disappearing-hooks-or-not/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2009/03/12/disappearing-hooks-or-not/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 05:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pamelalovis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colossal squid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conservator]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[glycol]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[tentacles]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/?p=2282</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[More news from the squid tank. This morning I caught up with Robert Clendon the conservator who is looking after the work on the squid.
Over the past few weeks we&#8217;ve been a bit concerned about the hooks on the tentacles and the arms. It looked as though the hooks could be disappearing. Not something we wanted to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.tepapa.govt.nz&blog=3060992&post=2282&subd=tepapa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Squid goes postal! NZPost&#8217;s Squid Stamp and Coin</title>
		<link>http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2009/03/12/squid-goes-postal-nzposts-squid-stamp-and-coin/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2009/03/12/squid-goes-postal-nzposts-squid-stamp-and-coin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 04:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lucyhoffman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colossal squid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exhibitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Whales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eagle]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[moa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nzpost]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not content with getting an exhibition, the Colossal Squid now has her own stamp and coin! The dollar stamp and coin no less. Cool. Thanks NZ Post!
 
The other giants are the Giant Moa (extinct), Giant Eagle (extinct), Southern Right Whale, Giant Weta.
I&#8217;m going to chase down a curator tomorrow and find out a) what the scientific names [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.tepapa.govt.nz&blog=3060992&post=2284&subd=tepapa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Good news from the squid inspection</title>
		<link>http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2009/03/11/good-news-from-the-squid-inspection/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2009/03/11/good-news-from-the-squid-inspection/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 04:53:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pamelalovis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colossal squid]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday we started remedial work on the colossal squid and her tank. Things are going very well and to schedule.
Yesterday we put up the barriers around the tank and lifted up the huge lid, using a forklift. We then drained most of the liquid out of the tank. That&#8217;s not as simple a task [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.tepapa.govt.nz&blog=3060992&post=2250&subd=tepapa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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