He then wanted to make more sea creatures - an orange anemone, and a yellow, red and orange cuttlefish. The yellow octopus, the blue sailfish and the yellow lemon shark are courtesy of Daddy and Isaac, and the red sparkly anemone is a previous creation.
Later in the day, Daddy and Isaac found some youtube videos on vampire squid. Then we all did some reading about vampire squid.
Things we've learnt from Octonauts about vampire squid:
- They are reddish
- They leave in the deep sea where it's always very dark
- They look like they have yellow eyes on the top of their head but they are really two lights
- They have two black eyes on the front of their body
- They have webbing between their tentacles that forms a cape like structure, hence the name
- They pull up their tentacles like a cape when scared
- They have spikes along the underside of their tentacles
Things we've have learnt about vampire squid from reading and watching videos:
- Its full name is the Vampire Squid of Hell (Vampyroteuthis infernalis)
- It's not a true squid, but a cephalopod that shares characteristics with both squid and octopuses
- It squirts bioluminescent mucus from its arm tips. This mucus which contains lots of little blue orbs of light
- The vampire squid is covered in photophores, meaning it can create flashes of light all over its body.
- There are two small white discs on the top of the head, which were initially thought to be photophores (the lights mentioned on Octonauts), but they are actually photoreceptors.
"They cover themselves up when they're a little bit scared, but when they're really scared, they squirt ink slime!" - Isaac, 3 years, 10 months
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