Marine tragedy! Stop the killing!

Be not faint of heart, O Loyal Cephalopodophiles, but National Geographic has a whole series of photos of a squid slaughter.

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The whales are shameless. They're just swimming around with tattered corpses dangling from their mouths, and they even dandle the bits in front of their babies, to encourage them to join in the wanton massacre.

Oh, the architeuthidae.

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