Jeff McNeal - David Attenborough sound
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Humboldt squid two metres long and 50 kilos and wait. Like most squid, they're voracious hunters. There are hundreds of them. They've found a shoal of lantern fish hiding 800 metres down off the coast of South America. Their tentacles are armed with powerful suckers with which they grab their prey, and when there are dome or lantern fish to be found, they turn on each other. This squid is caught a smaller one in its tentacles to hide its capture from the rest, it releases a smoke screen of black, but then an even bigger one challenges it and steals its catch. The twilight zone is the Humboldt squid's favoured hunting ground. They seldom go deep into the world of perpetual blackness below the midnight zone, 2/3 of a mile from the surface beyond the reach of the sun, a giant black void larger than a ll the rest of the world's habitats combined. There's life here, but not this way.