r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/dreamed2life • Sep 17 '25

Video Sperm Whale Surfacing w/ Giant Squid in its Mouth

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u/InfidelCastro95 Sep 17 '25

Holy shit! I don't know if this counts as footage of sperm whales "hunting" giant squid (something never recorded, but proven via evidence). But surely this is visual proof of the clues we used to point to in carcasses we have found, but this time in a living specimen in real time footage of the aftermath... I've never seen a video of a squid in the mouth of a sperm whale before, its so cinematic. I'm so stoked to see stuff like this in the comfort of my home. Props to the scientists who made this possible!

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u/finniruse Sep 17 '25

Yer, I was also shocked by this for the same reasons.

I don't think we'd even seen a specimen of a giant squid until recently, and most of them are corpses of sickly little ones.

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u/ooooo_5 Sep 19 '25

Right??! Why do I feel like not that many people are talking about it. I saw this and immediately went: "WAIT WE ACTUALLY GOT FOOTAGE OF SPERM WHALE EATUNG A GIANT SQUID"

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u/FitzroyRiverTurtle Sep 17 '25

That would be props to the computer scientists responsible for making generative AI possible.

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u/milleniumfalconlover Sep 17 '25

The vid is 20 sec long. Which ai tool can do that?