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Coming up on the Children's Hour, we're going to learn about squid with Skype a Scientist's
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Dr. Sarah McAnulty. We'll find out about other cephalopods too, like octopus, cuttlefish,
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and nautilus. Squid are ubiquitous, found in all oceans on planet Earth at all depths.
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You can learn a lot more with our learning guide for this episode, which meets and cites national
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education standards. Find it in the Squid episode at ChildrensHour.org. We've got great music
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on this show. Stick with us to learn about Squid. The Children's Hour is an independent
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production of The Children's Hour Incorporated, a New Mexico based non-profit. We're distributed
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by Native Voice One, the Native American radio network. It's time for The Children's Hour.
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Kids Public Radio. How many tickles does it take to make a squid laugh? I don't know
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how many! That would be ten tickles. It's time for the children's hour! Kids Public
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Radio!
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to be under the sea in an octopus's garden in the shade. He'd let us in, knows where we've
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been in his octopus's garden in the shade. I'd ask my friends to come and see An octopus's
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garden with me I'd like to be under the sea In an octopus's garden in the shade We would
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be warm below the storm in our little hideaway beneath the waves resting our head on the seabed
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in an octopus's garden near a cave. We would sing and dance around because we know we can't
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be found. I'd like to be under the sea In an octopus's garden in the shade
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We would shout and swim about the coral that lies beneath the waves. Oh what joy for every
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girl and boy knowing they're happy and they're safe. We would be so happy you and me, no
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one there to tell us what to do. I'd like to be under the sea in an octopus's garden
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with you. In an octopus's garden with you. In an octopus's garden with you. That was
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Casper Baby Pants opening up the Children's Hour today with their version of Octopus's
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Garden. You're listening to the Children's Hour on Katie Stone here at the Outpost Performance
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Space and on Zoom with a lot of great people. Who's here today? Hi, it's Max. Hello, it's
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Luminata. Hi, it's Lily May. Hi, it's Nina. Hi, it's Joe. Hello, this is Cade. Hi, it's
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Evan. Hi, my name's Thorfinn. Hi, it's Xavier. Hi, it's Amaya. Well, thank you all for being
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here out there in listener land here at the Outpost and on Zoom. Today on the show, we're
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going to learn about cephalopods, which are a group of creatures that have been around
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since before our planet even had trees. We're going to learn specifically about squid, which
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are ubiquitous in our oceans today. Ubiquitous is a word that means there's a lot of them,
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and they're found everywhere. They're from a big family that includes octopuses and our
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guest expert is a science educator who loves to teach about these color-changing tentacled
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ocean residents. You can stay tuned and meet Sarah McAnulty from Skype a Scientist and learn
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about squid with us today on the Children's Hour. We have a learning guide that comes
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with this episode and you can find it at childrenshour.org. Look for squid. Inside the learning guide are
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activities and lots more to learn about these incredible creatures. Plus it meets in sites
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educational standards so you can use the children's hour in the classroom. This is the children's
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hour and this is the whiz pops. come in handy if I practice karate but I don't practice karate
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because I'm an invertebrate I'm spineless but I've got ink and I don't mind squirting it
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yeah swimming through the water just a cephalopod swimming through the sea I'm an octopus and
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I hang mostly on the sea floor I just ate some scallops and now I want to eat more when I
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eat I use my feet and fill them up with my saliva I suck them down each one I found it helps
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me stay alive Listen, I'm a funky cephalopod If I lose an arm, I'll grow it back right where
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it was on my body My pigment cells are there to change my skin with camouflage But more
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evil comes, I'm elusive as a mirage Yeah!
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Swimming through the water Just to settle up high Swimming through the sea On octopus Swimming
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through the water Just to settle up high Swimming through the sea Sea, sea, sea you you
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Egg Rebus on the sea floor
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This is how I need to spend a you
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7-O-5 Swimming through the sea I'm an octopus Swimming through the water Just to cephalopod
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Swimming through the sea Octopus Swimming through the water Cephalopod Swimming through the sea
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Swimming through the water, set the boat Swimming through the sea Octopus
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You're listening to The Children's Hour and our guest today is an American biologist. She's
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a science communicator. She studies squids and cephalopods and is an expert. She's also the
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founder of an organization called Skype a Scientist. Welcome to The Children's Hour, Dr. Sarah McAnulty.
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Thank you so much. Thanks for having me. Oh, we're so glad you're here because really none
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of us know enough about squids and I'm gonna ask you the first question. it squid or squids?
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Excellent question. So if you have a lot of one type of squid, that's gonna be squid. That's
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like you've got a big group of all of the same species. Now let's say you have a bunch of
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different types of squid. You've got big squid and little squid. You've got red squid and
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green squid. Those are squids. It's a lot like the same structure as people and peoples and
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fish and fishes. Lots of one type of fish. It's still fish. lots of different fishes, it's
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fishes. Ah, I understand now. Well, you're going to teach us about squids, multiple different
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kinds, as well as squid. And we have a lot to learn from you being that we're from the
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desert and we don't see too many squids around here of any kind. Let's start with Evan. How
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many tentacles do squids have? Oh, good question. This is something that really folks get confused
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about. So squid, they have 10 limbs total. Of those limbs, eight of them are arms. Arms
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are pretty muscular. They're a little stretchy, but they're not super duper stretchy. And then
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in the center of those eight arms, they have two tentacles. The difference between tentacles
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and arms is that tentacles are really, really rubbery. They can shoot out, grab prey, which
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is like their food, and then bring it back to their beak where they munch and they eat it.
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So two tentacles, eight arms. Wow. What makes a squid a squid and not a fish? Okay, so fish
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have skeletons, they have backbones, they have jaws, and squid have almost none of that. They
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don't have any bones inside of them at all. Some of them have a inside structure that's
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kind of like a shell, like a seashell, but inside their body called a pen, but not all squid
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even have those anymore. Some of them have lost them. over evolutionary time. So way, way,
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way back, the like great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandmother of the
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squid had a shell on the outside of their body. They kind of look like a traffic cone. And
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then over time they brought them inside and they have a little shell. no bones, that's
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part of it. And instead of jaws, like many fish have, they have a beak. A beak? Did you just
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say a beak? A beak like a bird? It looks just like a parrot beak. Yeah, so they're usually
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brown and those beaks are very, very sharp. They have a very little bit of venom in those
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beaks. But the venom doesn't hurt people with the exception of one octopus. It mostly affects
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like crabs and shrimp and the things that they eat. But yeah, they have like, it looks just
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like a bird beak. It's unbelievable. How many types of squid are there? Ooh, there are about
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300 different types of squid. And they're all like very different from each other. Some squids,
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so the smallest squid is about the size of my pinky fingernail. Those are the pygmy squid.
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live in like around Australia and sort of like the Pacific Ocean and around there. And then
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the biggest squid is the colossal squid. They're about the length of a big yellow school bus.
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And then there are some squids that live in super shallow water like ankle depth water,
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and then some that live like three miles below the surface of the ocean. So there are about
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300 types of squid, and they're incredibly diverse. My guess is you haven't even found all the
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different types of squid there could be. Totally. We're learning about new squid all the time.
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What do squid eat? So it totally depends on the type of squid we're talking about. Because
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like I said, squid are so different from each other. So that also means that they generally
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eat different things. So the little squid can eat like itsy bitsy little shrimp, little like
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zooplankton, we call them like, so itsy bitsy squid, itsy bitsy little crustaceans, we call
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them. So that includes crabs and shrimp and that kind of thing. Big squid, like the colossal
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squid, eat what's called Antarctic toothfish and other fish that are pretty big, big squid
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eat big fish. Squid expert, Dr. Sarah McElnulty. And she is also the founder of Skype, a scientist.
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We're going to learn more about that in just a minute. And we're going to keep learning
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about squid. You're listening to the Children's Hour. Today's show comes with a learning guide.
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You can find it at childrenshour.org. Look for squid. We have a lot of learning guides posted
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and they're full of activities and ways to learn more. Sid the squid Sid the squid Sid the
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squid Sid the squid I'm Sid the squid like to impress Even in the dark you can see how I
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dress With neon green and pulsing pink Blue, silver and red My shiny lights blink Some squids
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are tiny They'll fit in your hand Some squids are giant Much bigger than man I'm a saffle
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of pot And I move so fast In a cloud of ink I'll slip right past SET THE SQUID SET THE
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SQUID SET THE SQUID Pulse to the left, pulse to the right. Wave your tentacles and dance
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all night. Pulse to the left, pulse to the right. Wave your tentacles and dance all night.
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Sid the Squid! Sid the Squid! Sid the Squid! Sid the Squid! I'm Sid the Squid and I'm super
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smart I have some knowledge that I'd like to impart My skin changes color so I can hide
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Or I send out a signal you should abide I light black and red so you'll stay away Or I might
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So you'll come and play. I swim alone or in a school. I'm a cephalopod and I'm super cool.
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Sit the squid. Sit the squid. Sit the squid. Sit the squid. Pulse to the left. Pulse
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to the right. Wave your tentacles and dance all night. Pulse to the left. Pulse to the
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right. Wave your tentacles and dance all night. Grow a The vampire squid lives deep in the
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sea It's got a cape and scary looking teeth Firefly squids light up at night They shine
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in the dark, blue and bright The giant squid is monstrous in size It's so huge you won't
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believe your eyes The in the air Then it's gone like it wasn't even there The Bobtail
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Squid is the cutest little one It glows in the dark while it's having fun The Wipplash Squid
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whips its tentacles around Watch out now or you'll be found! the squid! Sit the squid!
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Sit the squid! Sit the squid! Pulse to the left, pulse to the right Wave your tentacles
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and dance all night Pulse to the left, pulse to the right Wave your tentacles and dance
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all night Throw him in the air like you just don't care! the squid! Sid the squid! Sid
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the squid! Sid the squid! Sid the squid! Sid the squid! Sid the squid!
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Baby Butterfly Boktail Squid Got an idea and she ran with it Made a big plan and she can't
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get it That Baby Butterfly Boktail Squid Baby Butterfly Boktail Squid Made a little scheme
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and she worked for it Had a big dream and she flew with it That Baby Butterfly Boktail Squid
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Fly bobtail squid, had a bunch of friends in symbiosis Turning on the light or dimming it
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down Everywhere she roam in the deep dark down She shines even where the sun and moon don't
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show She lights her own way Sparkling her own luminous glow Baby Butterfly Bobtail Squid
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If she gets in trouble, she can deal with it Luminous in power, she's down with it Baby
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Butterfly Bobtail Squid Baby Butterfly Bobtail Squid You can be a part of the Protector's
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You can make a plan at a cap or the ocean with Baby Butterfly Bobtail Squid
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She's right
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She liked her way
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in the in the in
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So many tentacles we don't know what to do But if we had some boots then we'd be fancy as
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could be Just like all the fishermen that sail upon the sea So if you are a sailor, better
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lace your boots up tight And watch out for the tentacles that reach out in the night Cause
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we're the squid of Pamaquid and this is what we do Tickle all the fishermen and try to steal
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their shoes We're the squid of Pamaquid, we're permanently cute We lie beneath the ocean and
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dream of fancy boots Cause we're the squid of Pamaquid and that's just what we do We'd all
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be fancy gentlemen if only we had shoes
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That was James Kochalka, superstar, right here on The Children's Hour. Over the break you
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heard the little apple band with Squid Was Eleven and baby butterfly Bobtail Squid is Claudia
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Robin Gunn with her Sing for the Sea, Little Wild Ocean Friends release. You're listening
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to The Children's Hour. Our guest is Dr. Sarah McAnulty. She's a cephalopod expert. That's
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somebody who knows oh so much about squid and squids, the different families of squid. There
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are a lot of photos that you can find at childrenshour.org under this episode, Squids, including our
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learning guide. Let's go to Ili. Where do squid live? Squid live anywhere pretty much that
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is marines. That means in the ocean, no squid. live in freshwater. So you're not going to
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find squid in a lake or a river or a stream or a creek. You're only going to find them
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in oceans and bays, that sort of thing. There are so many different types of squid and squid
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live in so many different habitats and have so many different adaptations that they can
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kind of go wherever they're really, really good. And they've been around for an incredibly long
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time. There have been cephalopods. So cephalopods are the group that contains squid. octopus,
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cuttlefish, and then this weirdo called the nautilus that still lives in a shell. They've
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been around for longer than we've had trees on Earth. So they've had a really, really long
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time to take up space within the ocean and get different from each other over evolutionary
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time. Are you talking like 500 million years ago? 500 million years ago. So squid. very,
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very old. So they've been around since then. Have they changed very much? Cause you talked
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about a nautilus and I think as I look at a picture of a nautilus, I see those as fossils
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too. So that must be a very successful type of organism. Totally. So cephalopods when
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they first arose, this was again, like 500 million years ago, they kind of looked like a traffic
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cone with a face sticking out the bottom. They didn't look like the squid that we have today
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at all. And cephalopods didn't lose their shell until much, much later. So there were like
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hundreds of millions of years where animals that were closely related to squid, instead
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of looking like the little torpedoes we have today, looked pretty similar to that, but
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with a shell on the outside, with a little face sticking out. And then over time, those shells
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kind of got brought indoors. kind of like our skeletons, but for them, it's a shell. But
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they still have these like, really big, heavy shells inside of their bodies. And then over
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time, those got smaller and smaller and smaller, just like our ancestors had tails. And we don't
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have tails anymore. But we have that little like tailbone. So there's this like little
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whisper of our evolutionary history. And it's the same thing with squid, they have like a
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little whisper like the the tailbone version of a big shell. How do squids make ink? Squid
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house a bunch of pigments. That's like the black stuff within the ink in something called an
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ink sack. So it just looks like a little bag that they fold the brim with melanin, which
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is very similar to the the brown in my freckles and the brown in all sorts of human skin. So
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they store it in there. And then when they're ready to shoot some ink out, they basically
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just like shoot it out their siphon. There's like a little tube that connects the bag of
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ink to right under their faces. So like if I'm, I'm a squid and my arms are right in front
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of my face, there's like a little siphon funnel right under my face and they just shoot it
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right out that hole. Why do they do that? Squid can make ink for a lot of different reasons.
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So the main one is to confuse predators and get away. And there's two main ways they do
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that. They can kind of make like a smoke bomb, like a big, big, big cloud so that nobody can
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see anything and they can get away. The other approach is called a pseudo morph. Pseudo means
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fake, morph means body, kind of. So they will mix mucus, so like snot, into the ink and then
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they shoot out a blob. So instead of the ink dissipating everywhere, it stays together in
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a little clump. And that way they can plop out a blob that's about the same size and shape
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as them so that if like a barracuda is chasing them, instead of having one little squid to
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chase, suddenly they have like eight squid to choose between, but only one of them is a squid.
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The rest are just ink blobs. Wow. How intelligent are squids? Oh, what a good question. And it's
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something that scientists struggle with all the time because comparing animal intelligence
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is really, really hard to do. We get the sense that squid probably are smarter than a clam
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or a muscle or, you know, maybe a crab because they engage in these relatively complex social
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behaviors like talking to each other and working together on something sometimes. living together,
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certainly. But it's really hard to rank. This is the most smart animal. This is the next
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most smart animal. It's amorphous, tough to nail down. But generally speaking, squid,
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we think, are reasonably smart. We've heard stories about things like squid finding their
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way out of a lab through a drain and back to the ocean. Is that a rare thing? That seems
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pretty brilliant. Yeah. So the octopuses are more commonly escaping and that's because octopuses
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are generally squishier than squid are. So squid and cuttlefish, cuttlefish in particular
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have like a pretty big internal shell. It's basically the same size as their back. So they
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can't fit through tiny little holes. They're like, they're stuck where they are. Squid are
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just generally less squishable because of the way that their muscles kind of are and also
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because of that internal shell, the pen, we call it. And so they can't squeeze through
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stuff as easily. We're talking with Dr. Sarah McAnulty. She is a squid biologist. She's
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also the founder of Skype a Scientist. You're listening to The Children's Hour recorded at
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the Outpost Performance Space and on Zoom. We're here in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This
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next band is from New Zealand. It's the Itty Bitty Beats, right here on the Children's Hour.
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then again.
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She's blotchy Ollie, the octopus Whippy floppy Ollie is an octopus Splashing in the sea
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Splashy splashy Ollie the octopus Winky winky Ollie is an octopus He
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with eight oars at once just to stay afloat.
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You're listening to the Children's Hour and today on the show we're learning about squid
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and a bit about cephalopods in general. You can find a lot more info, including information
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about Skype a Scientist, the organization founded by our guest, Sarah McAnulty. That is an organization
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that sends the scientist into your group. Pretty interesting stuff. And that's all at childrenshour.org.
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Look for this episode, Squid, and you'll also find our learning guide. We're at the Outpost
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Performance Space and on Zoom with Skype a Scientist's Dr. Sarah McAnulty. Dr. McAnulty, I have to
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ask you about eating squid because for one thing, humans love their calamari. Is that squid?
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Are we eating the tentacles? What are we eating there? Alamari is a mix of the arms and the
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mantle. So the mantle is like their torso. And so yeah, it's both. If it's like the rings,
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then that is their torso, basically. Yeah, their mantle. It's pretty delicious. But is it a
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sustainable type of food to eat? Generally compared to most fish? Yes, but Whenever we're talking
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about seafood, it's so complicated and it depends on so many different things. So what I generally
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suggest is like just listening to whatever the heck the Monterey Bay Aquarium has to say about
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it. They have a little guide that you can check out because they're going to be populations,
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some places, like particularly of cuttlefish and octopus, where it's going to be less sustainable
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and then other places where it's like totally fine. But as the ocean gets warmer, that is
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likely to change. And so I wouldn't say forever and ever squid are going to be a sustainable
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seafood, but right now they're a better choice than say a tuna. about climate change in squid?
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What have you seen? Ooh. So if the year was 2016, I would be telling you that squid are
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doing great. Cephalopods are doing wonderful. They're seeming to do better lately, but we're
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realizing that as waters get warmer and warmer, the areas that they can be happy in are shrinking.
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So every squid and cuttlefish and octopus species has a range of temperatures that they're happy
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at. And as the oceans get warmer, the areas that they're happy in shrink and shrink and
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shrink. And so that's the biggest threat right now to squid is just things getting hotter.
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Certainly the whole ecosystem collapsing is also part of that. And some squid may just
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move. They might just go north or find another place to live and be totally fine. But there
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are so many different types of and so many different places they live that hopefully some of them
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survive, but we're probably going to lose some species, just like we're losing every other
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type of animal, at least some of the species because of climate change. sad. What is it
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about squid you find the most fascinating? I think the, the like color change to communicate
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and also that they're like quite social, but they've developed that social kind of behavior
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completely independently of us. Because when like we split from them on like the tree of
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life, it was a long, long time ago, like over 600 million years ago. And so you can kind
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of look at an animal and see how it does things similar to us. And then also doing similar
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things like totally differently from us. And that's really fun. It's like just seeing how
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another path could have gone for evolution. Sometimes old timey books show pictures of
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a giant squid grabbing a ship and taking it down to the bottom of the ocean. That's not
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real, is it? So the big, big, big octopus, like we don't know of any big octopuses that can
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take down a ship for sure, but there are pretty big squid. And could they take down one of
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these like huge multi-sail sailing ships that like cross the Atlantic? No, they're not big
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enough for that. But we think that the source of a lot of those mythologies are giant squid,
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because when giant squid are feeling sick, when they're approaching death, their ability to
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stay where they want to be in the water, what's called their buoyancy, gets all out of whack.
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And so they end up floating to the surface of the seawater kind of by accident because they're
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sick. And so When you have like a dying, disoriented giant squid and you're in a small boat and
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you encounter one, that's pretty scary because they are really big compared to a small boat
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and certainly compared to humans. And then we end up with pictures and books of the Kraken.
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Oh, yes. And that's what it looks like. Yeah. All right. This is a random question that me
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and my friend argued about. Could a squid survive in space? Oh, yeah. We've sent a squid to space,
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actually. Yes. So could a squid survive in space? Yes. Squid were sent to space specifically
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to understand how bacteria establish relationships with animals broadly. so squid are a model
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for understanding that. And we sent them to space to see how they would form a partnership
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with bacteria in weirdo gravity, what we call microgravity, which is what animals experience
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in space. And if we were to ever, as humans, live in space for multiple generations, we
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would need to know how this works because if we want to have children in space, we need
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to make sure that their bacteria is healthy because bacteria keep our bodies healthy. And
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so that was why we sent them to space and they certainly survived for part of that time.
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Yeah. Squids in space. That's hard to believe. You've been hearing Dr. Sarah McAnulty. She
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is a squid biologist. and also the founder of Skype a Scientist. Sarah, will you talk a little
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bit about Skype a Scientist? What is it? Yeah, Skype a Scientist is a program that aims to
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connect people directly with the source of information via scientists. We will match any classroom.
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Scout troop, library, group of friends, a book club, whatever. If you're a group, we will
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match you with a scientist of your interest. So if you really like spiders, we'll match
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you with a spider scientist. If you really like space, we'll match you with an astrophysicist
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or something like that. So you can sign up totally for free at skypeascientist.com. These are
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all about Q and A's because we wanna start conversations between scientists and everybody else. So we
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wanna make that as easy as possible for folks to do. We also run live streams where you can
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tune in, ask your questions of a scientist live if you don't wanna set up your own group. That's
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so cool. Dr. Sarah McAnulty, we've learned so much from you today on the Children's Hour,
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much more than anyone knew about squids around the world. Thank you so much for being with
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us on the Children's Hour. Yeah, of course, happy to be here. Thank you. Bye. Bye. Thank
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you. One, two, three. Squidly-lil-lil-do-da-do-da-day My old friend King Squid, grab the doughnut
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in here Yes indeed, that's what he did My old friend King Squid, squidly-lil-lil-do-da-do-da-day
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My old friend King Squid, open the cookie jar lid Grab the doughnut in here Yes indeed, that's
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what it did, my old friend King Squid Squid-lil-lil-lil-lil-da-do-da-day Squid-lil-lil-lil-lil-da-do-da-day
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My old friend King Squid Tickled the neighbor kid Opened the cooking jar lid Grabbed the
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doughnut in here Yes indeed that's what he did My old friend King Squid Squid li li li do
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da do da de Squid li li li do da do da de Squid li li li do da do da de
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Feet and head, these are the body parts of the squid Mantle and feet, mantle and head, these
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are the body parts of the squid Head and feet, feet and head, these are the body parts of
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the squid Mantle and feet, mantle and head, these are the body parts of the squid First
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you clean it and skin it and pound it and slice it and all of your kids say EWW! Then you bread
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it and fry it and garlic and butter just like Grandma used to do And you tell everyone that
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it's calamari and that sounds ever so fine Till they learn a squid has come to the party and
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they refuse to dine on head and feet, feet and head. These are the body parts of the squid,
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mantle and feet, mantle and head. These are the body parts of the squid, head and feet,
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feet and head. These are the body parts of the squid, mantle and feet, mantle and head. These
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are the body parts of the squid. It's calamari. It's calamari. No longer a squid. It's calamari.
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Just like the pasta becomes spaghetti. Now the squid, she is calamari So serve the pasta,
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serve the bread Serve the salad, and serve the squid Heads and feet are part of the deal
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Heads and feet make a very good meal You say try it, you will like it, and they find it
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hard to believe, so they do, and they did love the body parts of the squid. Mange pasta,
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mange panne, mange tutti calamari, calamari, calamari, mange tons of calamari. First you
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clean it and skin it and pound it and slice it and all of your kids say, ew! Then you
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bread it and fry it in garlic and butter just like grandma used to do. And you tell everyone
42:51
that it's calamari and that sounds ever so fine, till they learn a squid. has come to the party
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and they refuse to dine on head and feet, feet and head. These are the body parts of the squid,
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mantle and feet, mantle and head. These are the body parts of the squid, head and feet,
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feet and head. These are the body parts of the squid, mantle and feet, mantle and head.
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These are the body parts of the squid.
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That was Nancy Stewart from Sing a Song of Science. And before the break, you heard Fred with King
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Squid from Ukulele Awesome Sauce. You're learning about squid with us today on The Children's
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Hour. Squid are amazing. They're essentially mollusks without protective shells. And they're
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like the psychedelic acrobats of the ocean. with the ability to rapidly change colors to
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match the seas around them. They squirt ink to hide and fool their predators. These invertebrates
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are the fastest swimmers in the ocean, and the colossal squid is the largest. Their eyes
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are as big as footballs and can display bioluminescence. Imagine that looking at you in your submarine.
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Several species of squid can be self-luminous. Scientists estimate that 75 % of open ocean
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squid are bioluminescent. Bioluminescence is caused by an internal biochemical reaction
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in the squid's light organs, which can be found on the eyelid, eyeball, tentacles, and other
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surfaces of their bodies. There are more than 300 species of squid found in all depths of
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the ocean, everywhere on Earth. You can learn a lot more about squid in our learning guide.
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You can find it at ChildrensHour.org. Look for the episode, Squid. This is Marcia and
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the Positrons, right here on the Children's Hour.
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Giant Squirrel Well then...
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They both can paddle whales They've got tentacles, not tails And they live down deep under the
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sea They've got no bones
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It's true they have no bones, have no When they swim under the sea on land They can't wave
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like you and me
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can't wiggle like you and me
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can't dance like you and me
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And they've been rarely seen by folks like you and me But a few years ago some sailors saw
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one from their boat And brought her back for scientists to study You know what they found?
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Fingertips? No! Toad? They're missing something! Hair? Beakids with a book? Bagels? Bialy?
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Bone? Bone? Yeah, bone!
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It's true they have no bones, have no bones in When they swim under the sea On land they
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can't stop like you and me
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Giant squid have very large brains, so it's likely that they're also really smart. They've
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got the largest eyes around, and I know how strange it's gonna sound, but they've got three
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instead of just one beating heart. But you know what? The squid are missing something too.
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Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-bones! Right? It's bones. Wanna sing about it? Ba-ba-bones. Let's sing.
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They've got no bones!
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true
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They swim under the sea On land, can't tiptoe like you and me And on land, they can't twist
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like you and me
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They can't dance like you and
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can't dance like you and me
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They can dance like you and me
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Hold the bones. Hold the rest of the octopus too.
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Squid is squared with your tentacle face
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Squared with your tentacle face Squid is squared with your tentacle face Squid is squared with
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your tentacle face
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Red and yellow and pink and green, orange and purple and blue. You're all the colors of
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a rainbow squid and I wish I was a rainbow too. Red and yellow and pink and green, orange
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and purple and blue. You're all the colors of a rainbow squid and I wish I was a rainbow
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too.
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Squitters, Squids gotta be clack-a-buck
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The squitter squid's gotta be like a bird
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Squid is squid, it's gotta be clack-a-bun
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Square to square it's gonna be clack-a-burr
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You're red and yellow and pink and green Orange and purple and blue You're all the colors of
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a rainbow squid And I wish I was a rainbow too Red and yellow and pink and green Orange and
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purple and blue You're all the colors of a rainbow squid And I wish I was a rainbow too
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Squidy squid swims up, squidy squid swims down Squitty squid swims up, squiddy squid swims
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down Squiddy squid swims up, squiddy squid swims down Squity squid swims up, squidy squid
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swims down
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You're red, yellow, pink and green Orange and purple and blue You're all the colours of a
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rainbow squid And I wish I was a rainbow too Red, yellow, pink and green Orange and purple
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and blue You're all the colours of a rainbow squid And I wish I was a rainbow too Red and
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yellow and pink and green Orange and purple and blue You're all the colors of a rainbow
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squid And I wish I was a rainbow too Red and yellow and pink and green Orange and purple
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and blue You're all the colors of a rainbow squid And I wish I was a rainbow too Red and
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yellow and pink and green Orange and purple and blue You're all the colors of a rainbow,
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sweet And I wish I was a rainbow too Red and yellow and pink and green Orange and purple
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and blue You're all that colors of a rainbow squid And I wish I was a rainbow too I wish
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I was a rainbow too I wish I was a rainbow too I wish I was a rainbow too
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That was Poco Drum, right here on The Children's Hour with Rainbow Squid in the background,
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Pottington Bear. We're learning about squid today. I hope you've enjoyed the show. I'm
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Katie Stone. We'd love to hear from you. Send us a message on our SpeakPipe audio. You can
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find it at our contact page at childrenshour.org. Learn more with us by finding that learning
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guide. Tell a teacher it meets and cites educational standards. And it makes learning about biology
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a lot of fun. This is Perry Grip, right here on the Children's Hour. Happy Squid lives beneath
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the sea Dreaming fancy dreams for you and me Far below the waves in his secret cave Playing
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in the brine drinking pepper T
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Far across the ocean, on the other side of the world, Admiral Raisin Toast lifts his
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fist to the sky and proclaims, Avast ye happy squid, I'll find ye one day, I'll find ye.
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I I'm
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We've got time for just one more on The Children's Hour. This is Michael and the Rock Ness Monsters.
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We'll catch you next time.
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I dance with my mother, my father, my son, and my daughter. dance.
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you If I
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Bye.
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Would you dance with me?
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You
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squishy? I dance on the water, I dance on the land. I dance in a rock and roll octopus band.
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I dance. Oh, if I were an octopus. Oh, yeah. I, if I were an octopus. If I, if I.
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Yay! Swim along with me now. file. Hit file.
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