15 December 2010 – 3.42pm
It’s hard to believe but the colossal squid at Te Papa has turned “two”. Time flies when you’re having fun!
Today my squid, “Pamela”, is 730 days old – she is 2 years old.
She now weighs an impressive 306 kilograms (about another 180 kilograms to go before she’s the same weight as the colossal squid on display).
She has travelled 6,570 kilometres in the Southern Ocean (Auckland to Invercargill and back, twice – I feel tired just thinking about it).
She’s looked for more suckers, survived encounters with Japanese whalers and, from the look of her, had a very good time on her adventures.
Pamela's squid, now 2 years old!
More than 210,000 squid frequent the Build a Squid database – and there’s room for plenty more.
So go and check on your squid, make another, or come in and wish Te Papa’s colossal squid a Happy 2nd Birthday.
18 December 2009 – 3.08pm
Pamela's one year old squid
Hey squid fans
Time flies when you’re having fun! The colossal squid at Te Papa has turned one year old.
Now’s a good time to check out the squid you made on Build a Squid. http://squid.tepapa.govt.nz/build-a-squid
See how old you’ve got, how much you weigh (eek) and what you’ve been getting up to.
My squid is 368 days old, has travelled over 3,000 kilometres and weighs 154 kilograms. At the moment my squid has just escaped another colossal squid.
If you’ve got visitors over Christmas who haven’t seen the squid, check it out online and get them into Te Papa to see it in all its squiddy glory.
http://squid.tepapa.govt.nz/
To ‘honour’ Barack Obama as the new American President I’ve made him a squid.
Possibly not one of the honours he was thinking of when he took office but I thought he’d like it anyway. You can follow his squid adventures:
- Go to the Build a Squid interactive,
- Click on ‘Find your squid’,
- then ‘Search for any squid by name’ and enter ”Barack Obama”.
It was a job deciding what colour (or more appropriately colours) he should be. But I decided on the following:
- the biggest eyes because he’s got a lot to look out for;
- a good strong mantle (a bit like having a pair of wide human shoulders) because he’s got a heap of things to do and much to deliver on;
- a nice pair of big purple fins (purple being a healthy mix of red and blue) to help him steer things in the right direction;
- and long tentacles with a tint of green to reach out for all those ‘green’ issues.
Good luck with your new job Mr President…. I hope you like your squid.
