{"id":8471,"date":"2025-11-15T05:03:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T05:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/15\/friday-squid-blogging-pilot-whales-eat-a-lot-of-squid-html\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T05:03:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T05:03:42","slug":"friday-squid-blogging-pilot-whales-eat-a-lot-of-squid-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/15\/friday-squid-blogging-pilot-whales-eat-a-lot-of-squid-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Squid Blogging: Pilot Whales Eat a Lot of Squid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>Friday Squid Blogging: Pilot Whales Eat a Lot of Squid<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Short-finned pilot wales (<i>Globicephala macrorhynchus<\/i>) eat <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/scientists-wanted-to-know-how-many-squid-pilot-whales-eat-each-day-what-they-found-was-astounding-2000685522\">at lot<\/a> of squid:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>To figure out a short-finned pilot whale\u2019s caloric intake, Gough says, the team had to combine data from a variety of sources, including movement data from short-lasting tags, daily feeding rates from satellite tags, body measurements collected via aerial drones, and sifting through the stomachs of unfortunate whales that ended up stranded on land.<\/p>\n<p>Once the team pulled all this data together, they estimated that a typical whale will eat between 82 and 202 squid a day. To meet their energy needs, a whale will have to consume an average of 140 squid a day. Annually, that\u2019s about 74,000 squid per whale. For all the whales in the area, that amounts to about 88,000 tons of squid eaten every year.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Research <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.biologists.com\/jeb\/article-abstract\/228\/21\/jeb249821\/369712\/Daily-energetic-expenditure-and-energy-consumption\">paper<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven\u2019t covered.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2024\/06\/new-blog-moderation-policy.html\">Blog moderation policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Bruce Schneier<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2025\/11\/friday-squid-blogging-pilot-whales-eat-a-lot-of-squid.html\">Go to bruce schneier<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday Squid Blogging: Pilot Whales Eat a Lot of Squid Short-finned pilot wales (Globicephala macrorhynchus) eat at lot of squid: To figure out a short-finned pilot whale\u2019s caloric intake, Gough says, the team had to combine data from a variety of sources, including movement data from short-lasting tags, daily feeding rates from satellite tags, body [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,91,1],"tags":[87],"class_list":["post-8471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bruce-schneier","category-squid","category-uncategorized","tag-bruce-schneier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}