cephalopod

先生が述べられたように、今日はA30のプレゼミに参加させていただきます。ありがたいことです。
空飛ぶイカが話題になりました。AJWが記事をアップしていました。

　　　　　　　　　　　　

Researchers unlock the secret of 'flying' squid

SAPPORO--Better not substitute squid for swine in the idiom "when pigs fly," because now researchers at Hokkaido University have succeeded in proving that these ocean mollusks really can get airborne.
In an article titled "Oceanic squid do fly," published in the digital issue of Marine Biology on Feb. 5, a German science magazine, the researchers said they have succeeded in figuring out how a squid propels itself from the water and glides through the air.

They describe the ability as a highly sophisticated “flight action.”

Kota Muramatsu, one of the team members, a marine ecology student at the university's graduate school of fisheries sciences, encountered a shoal of some 100 squid in the northwest Pacific Ocean about 600 kilometers east of Tokyo in July 2011, during a training cruise.

Muramatsu and Keiko Sekiguchi, now a researcher at the graduate school of arts and sciences at International Christian University, took photos of the cephalopod.

The squid were jumping out of the sea and gliding parallel to the surface for about two to three seconds, before landing back in the water about 30 meters away.

http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/AJ201302090020

Tホテルでバイトをしていますが、そこで時折耳にする「セファ..ホニャララ」という言葉がこれではっきりと分かりました。cephalopodは「イカ・タコなどの頭足綱の動物」だったのですね。ちなみにイカスミはCephalopod inkとのことです。（EnDough）