In case you’ve ever wondered how a swordfish uses that long pointy thing on the front of their head, it’s exactly how you think they do.
Don’t turn the sound on. The narrator is awful.
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
How does the swordfish get to eat the squid when it is stuck to its sword? I’m guessing it doesn’t have a super-long hummingbird type tongue so does it scrape it off on something (what? Open ocean?) or what?
StevoR: Easy. You pick an awl (a.k.a. a piercer) — in our language, een priem — prick a piece of meat onto it, and SHAKE it off. Even above water it just needs a quick shake.
And here I thought it was the shark version of an aerospike. ;)
Still, I prefer my squid lightly cooked in pasta sauce.
Do marlin do the same?
BTW, I have no qualms about a sword fish killing a squid, it needs to eat — to be able to produce offspring. THE consequence of evolution is that amongst the living there’s more dying than living.
@2. René : Ah, yes. That makes sense. Thanks.
Walter Solomon @ 4, from what I’ve found online, the marlin slashes with the bill, to stun prey with it.
I did turn the sound on. Interesting they used the music from the movie The good the bad and the ugly. I recently lurned that snippet of music was inspired by a coyote howl.