| The Colossal Squid | |
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Name |
Colossal Squid |
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Breathes |
Water |
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Size |
huge |
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What he does |
Grab objects with their hooks, located on their tentacles |
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Friend |
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The Colossal Squid is known as the biggest squid in the ocean, with the giant squid coming in second. It has eyes surrounded by lights that allow it to see in the dark and has hooks at the ends of their long tentacles. When the Octopod was attacked by the squid, they were all getting scared, especially because Barnacles couldn't steer the ship away. Estimated to be bigger than the Octopod, he is one of the biggest living objects in the Octonauts series so far. He is also the biggest squid in the series.
“Colossal squids live very deep in the ocean and grow to enormous size. They have small glowing dots around their huge eyes to attract fish to eat.” - Octonauts Creature Card #54
Looks[]
The colossal squid is huge, with a triangular-shaped head, 8 smaller arms, 2 longer tentacles with hooks and can come in any color. In this case, he is purple.
Appearances[]
Trivia[]
- 'Colossal' means huge, or extremely large.
- You can only see his entire body on the screen in the Octopod, or at the end of the episode.
- In real life, colossal squids are red, occasionally with white patches
- Sperm whales are their main predators in real life.
- Many colossal squids have been discovered around Antarctica.
- He is the second largest animal in creature report and in the series, while the first largest is the blue whale. Even though he is larger then the Octopod, the blue whales are still bigger then colossal squids.
- Despite its depiction in Octonauts as a supermassive, kraken-like animal, In real life Colossal squids are about the same size as an average 1-2 man fishing boat, and weigh up to 1000 pounds. They can grow up to 40 feet, owing most of this to their 2 long tentacles.
- It has only one episode appearance, it is unknown if another Colossal Squid or the same one is going to return.
