Poor thing. If it helps to soothe your conscience, though, squid (and indeed most cephalopods) live very short lives. Many ceph species live less than a year, even under the best circumstances. If they're not eaten while eggbound, they'll be eaten very young. By example, an octopus can lay upwards of 50K eggs, yet only a handful of individuals will make it to adulthood. It's just a thing that cephs do - live fast, die young, leave lots of babies and a rapidly decaying corpse.
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Date: 2005-02-19 03:37 am (UTC)