Coming up on The Children's Hour, we're going to learn about squid with Skype a Scientist's Dr. Sarah McAnulty. We'll find out about other cephalopods too, like octopus, cuttlefish, and nautilus. Squid are ubiquitous, found in all oceans on planet Earth at all depths. You can learn a lot more with our learning guide for this episode, which meets and cites national education standards. Find it in the Squid episode at ChildrensHour.org. We've got great music
on this show. Stick with us to learn about Squid. The Children's Hour is an independent production of The Children's Hour Incorporated, a New Mexico based non-profit. We're distributed by Native Voice One, the Native American radio network. It's time for The Children's Hour, Kids Public Radio. How many tickles does it take to make a squid laugh? I don't know how many! That would be ten tickles. Ha, ha, ha. It's time for The Children's Hour, Kids Public Radio!
To be under the sea in an octopus's garden in the shade. He'd let us in, knows where we've been in his octopus's garden in the shade. I'd ask my friends to come and see An octopus's garden with me I'd like to be under the sea In an octopus's garden in the shade. We would be warm below the storm in our little hideaway beneath the waves resting our head on the seabed in an octopus's garden near a cave. We would sing and dance
around because we know we can't be found. I'd like to be under the sea In an octopus's garden in the shade oh. We would shout and swim about the coral that lies beneath the waves. Oh what joy for every girl and boy knowing they're happy and they're safe. We would be so happy you and me, no one there to tell us what to do. I'd like to be under the sea in an octopus's garden
with you. In an octopus's garden with you. In an octopus's garden with you. That was Casper Baby Pants opening up The Children's Hour today with their version of Octopus's Garden. You're listening to The Children's Hour, i'n Katie Stone here at the Outpost Performance Space and on Zoom with a lot of great people. Who's here today? Hi, it's Max. Hello, it's Illuminata. Hi, it's Lily Mae. Hi, it's Nina. Hi, it's Jo. Hello, this is Cade. Hi, it's
Evan. Hi, my name's Thorfin. Hi, it's Xavier. Hi, it's Amaya. Well, thank you all for being here out there in listener land and here at the Outpost and on Zoom. Today on the show, we're going to learn about cephalopods, which are a group of creatures that have been around since before our planet even had trees. We're going to learn specifically about squid, which are ubiquitous in our oceans today. Ubiquitous is a word that means there's a lot of them,
and they're found everywhere. They're from a big family that includes octopuses and our guest expert is a science educator who loves to teach about these color-changing tentacled ocean residents. You can stay tuned and meet Sarah McAnulty from Skype a Scientist and learn about squid with us today on The Children's Hour. We have a learning guide that comes with this episode and you can find it at childrenshour.org. Look for squid. Inside the learning guide
are activities and lots more to learn about these incredible creatures. Plus it meets and sites educational standards so you can use The Children's Hour in the classroom. This is The Children's Hour and this is the The Whizpops!. If I practice karate, but I don't practice
karate. Because I'm an invertebrate I'm spineless, but I've got ink. And I don't mind squirting it, yeah swimming through the water just a cephalopod swimming through the sea I'm an octopus and I hang mostly on the sea floor I just ate some scallops and now I want to eat more when I eat I use my feet and fill them up with my saliva I suck them down each one I found it helps me stay alive Listen, I'm a funky cephalopod If I lose an arm, I'll grow
it back right where it was on my body. My pigment cells are there to change my skin with camouflage But an eel comes, I'm elusive as a mirage Yeah! Swimming through the water. Just to settle up high. Swimming through the sea. On octopus. Swimming through the water. Just to settle up high. Swimming through the sea. Sea, sea, sea you you. Egg on the sea floor This is how I need to spend a you 7-O-5 Swimming through the sea I'm an octopus. Swimming through the water. Just to cephalopod.
Swimming through the sea. Octopus Swimming through the water. Cephalopod swimming through the sea. Swimming through the water, set the boat. Swimming through the sea Octopus. You're listening to The Children's Hour and our guest today is an American biologist. She's a science communicator. She studies squids and cephalopods and is an expert. She's also the founder of an organization called Skype a Scientist. Welcome to The Children's Hour,
Dr. Sarah McAnulty. Thank you so much. Thanks for having me. Oh, we're so glad you're here because really none of us know enough about squids and I'm gonna ask you the first question. it squid or squids? Excellent question. So if you have a lot of one type of squid, that's gonna be squid. That's like you've got a big group of all of the same species. Now let's say you have a bunch of different types of squid. You've got big squid and little squid. You've
got red squid and green squid. Those are squids. It's a lot like the same structure as people and peoples and fish and fishes. Lots of one type of fish. It's still fish. lots of different fishes, it's fishes. Ah, I understand now. Well, you're going to teach us about squids, multiple different kinds, as well as squid. And we have a lot to learn from you being that we're from the desert and we don't see too many squids around here of any kind. Let's start with Evan.
How many tentacles do squids have? Oh, good question. This is something that really folks get confused about. So squid, they have 10 limbs total. Of those limbs, eight of them are arms. Arms are pretty muscular. They're a little stretchy, but they're not super duper stretchy. And then in the center of those eight arms, they have two tentacles. The difference between tentacles
and arms is that tentacles are really, really rubbery. They can shoot out, grab prey, which is like their food, and then bring it back to their beak where they munch and they eat it. So two tentacles, eight arms. Wow. What makes a squid a squid and not a fish? Okay, so fish have skeletons, they have backbones, they have jaws, and squid have almost none of that. They
don't have any bones inside of them at all. Some of them have a inside structure that's kind of like a shell, like a seashell, but inside their body called a pen, but not all squid even have those anymore. Some of them have lost them. over evolutionary time. So way, way, way back, the great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandmother of the squid had a shell on the outside of their body. They kind of look like a traffic cone. And
then over time they brought them inside and they have a little shell. So, no bones, that's part of it. And instead of jaws, like many fish have, they have a beak. A beak? Did you just say a beak? A beak like a bird? It looks just like a parrot beak. Yeah, so they're usually brown and those beaks are very, very sharp. They have a very little bit of venom in those beaks. But the venom doesn't hurt people with the exception of one octopus. It mostly
affects crabs and shrimp and the things that they eat. But yeah, they have like, it looks just like a bird beak. It's unbelievable. How many types of squid are there? Ooh, there are about 300 different types of squid. And they're all like very different from each other. So the smallest squid is about the size of my pinky fingernail. Those are the pygmy squid. They live around Australia and sort of like the Pacific Ocean and around
there. And then the biggest squid is the colossal squid. They're about the length of a big yellow school bus. And then there are some squids that live in super shallow water like ankle depth water, and then some that live like three miles below the surface of the ocean. So there are about 300 types of squid, and they're incredibly diverse. My guess is you haven't even found all the different types of squid there could be. Totally. We're learning about new squid
all the time. What do squid eat? So it totally depends on the type of squid we're talking about. Because like I said, squid are so different from each other. So that also means that they generally eat different things. So the little squid can eat itsy bitsy little shrimp, little like zooplankton, we call them. So itsy bitsy squid eat itsy bitsy little crustaceans,
we call them. So that includes crabs and shrimp and that kind of thing. Big squid, like the colossal squid, eat what's called Antarctic toothfish and other fish that are pretty big. Big squid eat big fish. Squid expert, Dr. Sarah McAnulty. And she is also the founder of Skype a Scientist. We're going to learn more about that in just a minute and we're going to keep learning about squid. You're listening to The Children's Hour. Today's show
comes with a learning guide. You can find it at childrenshour.org. Look for Squid. We have a lot of learning guides posted and they're full of activities and ways to learn more. Sid the squid. Sid the squid. Sid the squid. Sid the squid. I'm Sid the squid like to impress. Even in the dark you can see how I dress. With neon green and pulsing pink. Blue, silver and red. My shiny lights blink. Some squids are tiny. They'll fit in your hand. Some squids
are giant. Much bigger than man I'm a saffle of pot. And I move so fast In a cloud of ink I'll slip right past. SET THE SQUID SET THE SQUID SET THE SQUID. Pulse to the left, pulse to the right. Wave your tentacles and dance all night. Pulse to the left, pulse to the right. Wave your tentacles and dance all night. Sid the Squid! Sid the Squid! Sid the Squid! Sid the Squid! I'm Sid the Squid and I'm super smart I have some knowledge that I'd like
to impart. My skin changes color so I can hide. Or I send out a signal you should abide I light black and red so you'll stay away. Or I might. So you'll come and play. I swim alone or in a school. I'm a cephalopod and I'm super cool. Sit the squid. Sit the squid. Sit the squid. Sit the squid. Pulse to the left. Pulse to the right. Wave your tentacles and dance all night. Pulse to the left. Pulse to the right. Wave your tentacles and dance all
night. The vampire squid lives deep in the sea It's got a cape and scary looking teeth. Firefly squids light up at night. They shine in the dark, blue and bright. The giant squid is monstrous in size. It's so huge you won't believe your eyes. The in the air Then it's gone like it wasn't even there. The Bobtail Squid is the cutest little one It glows in the dark while it's having fun. The Wipplash Squid whips its tentacles around. Watch out
now or you'll be found! the squid! Sit the squid! Sit the squid! Sit the squid! Pulse to the left, pulse to the right. Wave your tentacles and dance all night. Pulse to the left, pulse to the right. Wave your tentacles and dance all night Throw him in the air like you just don't care! The squid! Sid the squid! Sid the squid! Sid the squid! Sid the squid! Sid the squid! Sid the squid! Baby Butterfly Boktail Squid. Got an idea and she ran with it. Made a big plan and she can't
get it. That Baby Butterfly Boktail Squid. Baby Butterfly Boktail Squid. Made a little scheme and she worked for it. Had a big dream and she flew with it. That Baby Butterfly Boktail Squid Fly bobtail squid, had a bunch of friends in symbiosis. Turning on the light or dimming it down. Everywhere she roam in the deep dark down. She shines even where the sun and moon don't show. She lights her own way. Sparkling her own luminous glow. Baby Butterfly Bobtail Squid
If she gets in trouble, she can deal with it. Luminous in power, she's down with it. Baby Butterfly Bobtail Squid Baby Butterfly Bobtail Squid. You can be a part of the Protector's You can make a plan at a cap or the ocean with Baby Butterfly Bobtail Squid. She's right. She liked her way in the in the in.
You're listening to The Children's Hour, Kids Public Radio. We'll be right back. The Children's Hour is a production of The Children's Hour, Inc. We're a New Mexico based non-profit organization and we're funded by listeners just like you. Learn more at childrenshour.org. The New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs supports The Children's Hour. Celebrate the diverse cultural communities of New Mexico at nmculture.org. Hi, I love The Children's Hour because it's
fun and you go to all sorts of different places. I'm Yoshi James from Australia. Take The Children's Hour with you on your road trip. Find us at childrenshour.org or anywhere you listen to podcasts. So many tentacles we don't know what to do. But if we had some boots then we'd be fancy as could be. Just like all the fishermen that sail upon the sea. So if you are a sailor, better lace your boots up tight. And watch out for the tentacles that reach out in the night. Cause
we're the squid of. Pamaquid and this is what we do. Tickle all the fishermen and try to steal their shoes. We're the squid of Pamaquid, we're permanently cute. We lie beneath the ocean and dream of fancy boots. Cause we're the squid of Pamaquid and that's just what we do. We'd all be fancy gentlemen if only we had shoes.
That was James Kochalka Superstar, right here on The Children's Hour. Over the break you heard theLittle Apple Band with Squid Was 11 and Baby Butterfly Bobtail Squid is Claudia Robin Gunn with her Sing for the Sea, Little Wild Ocean Friends release. You're listening to The Children's Hour. Our guest is Dr. Sarah McAnulty. She's a cephalopod expert. That's
somebody who knows oh so much about squid and squids, the different families of squid. There are a lot of photos that you can find at childrenshour.org under this episode, Squids, including our learning guide. Let's go to Illi. Where do squid live? Squid live anywhere pretty much that is marines. That means in the ocean, no squid. live in freshwater. So you're not going to find squid in a lake or a river or a stream or a creek. You're only going to find them in oceans and
bays, that sort of thing. There are so many different types of squid and squid live in so many different habitats and have so many different adaptations that they can kind of go wherever. They're really, really good. And they've been around for an incredibly long time. There have been cephalopods. So cephalopods are the group that contains squid, octopus, cuttlefish, and then this weirdo called the nautilus that still lives in a shell. They've
been around for longer than we've had trees on Earth. So they've had a really, really long time to take up space within the ocean and get different from each other over evolutionary time. Are you talking like 500 million years ago? 500 million years ago. So squid are very, very old. They've been around since then. Have they changed very much? Cause you talked about a nautilus and I think as I look at a picture of a nautilus, I see those as fossils
too. So that must be a very successful type of organism. Totally. So cephalopods when they first arose, this was again, like 500 million years ago, they kind of looked like a traffic cone with a face sticking out the bottom. They didn't look like the squid that we have today
at all. And cephalopods didn't lose their shell until much, much later. So there were hundreds of millions of years where animals that were closely related to squid, instead of looking like the little torpedoes we have today, looked pretty similar to that, but with a shell on the outside, with a little face sticking out. And then over time, those shells kind of got brought indoors. Kind of like our skeletons, but for them, it's a shell. But they still
have these like really big heavy shells inside of their bodies. And then over time, those got smaller and smaller and smaller, just like our ancestors had tails. And we don't have tails anymore. But we have that little like tailbone. So there's this little whisper of our evolutionary history. And it's the same thing with squid, they have a little whisper like the the tailbone version of a big shell. How do squids make ink? Squid house a bunch
of pigments. That's the black stuff within the ink in something called an ink sack. So it just looks like a little bag that they fold the brim with melanin, which is very similar to the the brown in my freckles and the brown in all sorts of human skin. So they store it in there. Then when they're ready to shoot some ink out, they basically just shoot it out their siphon. There's like a little tube that connects the bag of ink to right under
their faces. So if I'm a squid and my arms are right in front of my face, there's like a little siphon funnel right under my face and they just shoot it right out that hole. Why do they do that? Squid can make ink for a lot of different reasons. So the main one is to confuse predators and get away. And there's two main ways they do that. They can kind of make a smoke bomb, like a big, big, big cloud so that nobody can see anything and they
can get away. The other approach is called a pseudo morph. Pseudo means fake, morph means body, kind of. So they will mix mucus, so like snot, into the ink and then they shoot out a blob. So instead of the ink dissipating everywhere, it stays together in a little clump. And that way they can plop out a blob that's about the same size and shape as them so that if like a barracuda is chasing them, instead of having one little squid to chase, suddenly
they have like eight squid to choose between, but only one of them is a squid. The rest are just ink blobs. Wow. How intelligent are squids? Oh, what a good question. And it's something that scientists struggle with all the time because comparing animal intelligence is really, really hard to do. We get the sense that squid probably are smarter than a clam or a muscle or maybe a crab because they engage in these relatively complex social behaviors
like talking to each other and working together on something sometimes. Living together, certainly. But it's really hard to rank whether this is the most smart animal. This is the next most smart animal. It's amorphous, tough to nail down. But generally speaking, squid, we think, are reasonably smart. We've heard stories about things like squid finding their way out of a lab through a drain
and back to the ocean. Is that a rare thing? That seems pretty brilliant. Yeah. So the octopuses are more commonly escaping and that's because octopuses are generally squishier than squid are. So squid and cuttlefish, cuttlefish in particular have like a pretty big internal shell. It's basically the same size as their back. So they can't fit through tiny little
holes. They're like, they're stuck where they are. Squid are just generally less squishable because of the way that their muscles kind of are and also because of that internal shell, the pen, we call it. And so they can't squeeze through stuff as easily. We're talking with Dr. Sarah McAnulty. She is a squid biologist. She's also the founder of Skype a Scientist. You're listening to The Children's Hour recorded at the Outpost Performance Space and on Zoom.
We're here in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This next band is from New Zealand. It's the Itty Bitty Beats, right here on The Children's Hour. Then again. She's blotchy Ollie, the octopus. Whippy floppy Ollie is an octopus. Splashing in the sea. Please. Do um. Splashy splashy Ollie the octopus. Winky winky Ollie is an octopus. He with eight oars at once just to stay afloat. We are. You're listening to The Children's Hour and today on the show we're learning about squid
and a bit about cephalopods in general. You can find a lot more info, including information about Skype a Scientist, the organization founded by our guest, Sarah McAnulty. That is an organization that sends a scientist into your group. Pretty interesting stuff. And that's all at childrenshour.org. Look for this episode, Squid, and you'll also find our learning guide. We're at the Outpost Performance Space and on Zoom with Skype a Scientist's Dr. Sarah McAnulty. Dr. McAnulty, I have to
ask you about eating squid because for one thing, humans love their calamari. Is that squid? Are we eating the tentacles? What are we eating there? Calamari is a mix of the arms and the mantle. So the mantle is like their torso. And so yeah, it's both. If it's like the rings, then that is their torso, basically. Yeah, their mantle. It's pretty delicious. But is it a sustainable type of food to eat? Generally compared to most fish? Yes, but whenever we're
talking about seafood, it's so complicated and it depends on so many different things. So what I generally suggest is like just listening to whatever the heck the Monterey Bay Aquarium has to say about it. They have a little guide that you can check out because they're going to be populations, some places, like particularly of cuttlefish and octopus, where it's going to be less sustainable and then other places where it's like totally fine. But as the ocean
gets warmer, that is likely to change. And so I wouldn't say forever and ever squid are going to be a sustainable seafood, but right now they're a better choice than say a tuna. What about climate change and squid? What have you seen? Ooh. So if the year was 2016, I would be telling you that squid are doing great. Cephalopods are doing wonderful. They're seeming to do better lately, but we're realizing that as waters get warmer and warmer, the areas that
they can be happy in are shrinking. So every squid and cuttlefish and octopus species has a range of temperatures that they're happy at. And as the uh oceans get warmer, the areas that they're happy in shrink and shrink and shrink. And so that's the biggest threat right now to squid is just things getting hotter. Certainly the whole ecosystem collapsing is also part of that. And some squid may just move. They might just go north or find another place
to live and be totally fine. But there are so many different types of and so many different places they live that hopefully some of them survive, but we're probably going to lose some species, just like we're losing every other type of animal, at least some of the species because of climate change. Sad. What is it about squid you find the most fascinating? I think the color change to communicate and also that they're like quite social, but
they've developed that social behavior completely independently of us. Because when we split from them on the tree of life, it was a long, long time ago, like over 600 million years ago. So you can kind of look at an animal and see how it does things similar to us. And then also doing similar things like totally differently from us. And that's really fun. It's like just seeing how another path could have gone for evolution.
Sometimes old timey books show pictures of a giant squid grabbing a ship and taking it down to the bottom of the ocean. That's not real, is it? So the big, big, big octopus, like we don't know of any big octopuses that can take down a ship for sure, but there are pretty big squid. And could they take down one of these huge multi-sail sailing ships that
cross the Atlantic? No, they're not big enough for that. But we think that the source of a lot of those mythologies are giant squid, because when giant squid are feeling sick, when they're approaching death, their ability to stay where they want to be in the water, what's called their buoyancy, gets all out of whack. And so they end up floating to the surface of the
seawater kind of by accident because they're sick. And so, when you have a dying, disoriented giant squid and you're in a small boat and you encounter one, that's pretty scary because they are really big compared to a small boat and certainly compared to humans. Then we end up with pictures and books of the Kraken. Oh, yes and that's what it looks like. Yeah. All right. This is a random question that me and my friend argued about. Could a squid survive
in space? Oh, yeah. We've sent a squid to space, actually. Yes. So could a squid survive in space? Yes. Squid were sent to space specifically to understand how bacteria establish relationships with animals broadly. so squid are a model for understanding that. And we sent them to space to see how they would form a partnership with bacteria in weirdo gravity, what we call
microgravity, which is what animals experience in space. And if we were to ever, as humans, live in space for multiple generations, we would need to know how this works because if we want to have children in space, we need to make sure that their bacteria is healthy because bacteria keep our bodies healthy. And so that was why we sent them to space and they certainly survived for part of that time. Yeah. Squids in space. That's hard to believe. You've
been hearing Dr. Sarah McAnulty. She is a squid biologist and also the founder of Skype a Scientist. Sarah, will you talk a little bit about Skype a Scientist? What is it? Yeah, Skype a Scientist is a program that aims to connect people directly with the source of information via scientists. We will match any classroom, scout troop, library, group of friends, a book club, whatever. If you're a group, we will match you with a scientist of
your interest. So if you really like spiders, we'll match you with a spider scientist. If you really like space, we'll match you with an astrophysicist or something like that. So you can sign up totally for free at skypeascientist.com. These are all about Q and A's because we wanna start conversations between scientists and everybody else. So we wanna make that as easy as possible for folks to do. We also run live streams where you can tune in, ask your questions of a scientist
live if you don't wanna set up your own group. That's so cool. Dr. Sarah McAnulty, we've learned so much from you today on The Children's Hour, much more than anyone knew about squids around the world. Thank you so much for being with us on The Children's Hour. Yeah, of course, happy to be here. Thank you. Bye. Bye. Thank you. One, two, three. Squidly-lil-lil-do-da-do-da-day. My old friend King Squid, grab the doughnut in here. Yes indeed, that's what he did. My
old friend King Squid, squidly-lil-lil-do-da-do-da-day. My old friend King Squid, open the cookie jar lid. Grab the doughnut in here. Yes indeed, that's what it did, my old friend King Squid. Squid-lil-lil-lil-lil-da-do-da-day Squid-lil-lil-lil-lil-da-do-da-day. My old friend King Squid tickled the neighbor kid. Opened the cooking jar lid. Grabbed the doughnut in here. Yes indeed that's what he did. My old friend King Squid. Squid li li
li do da do da de. Squid li li li do da do da de. Squid li li li do da do da de. Your listening to The Children's Hour, Kids Public Radio. We'll be right back. The Children's Hour is making weekly learning guides for every episode thanks to the support of the Albuquerque Community Foundation. You can support this effort too. Go to childrenshour.org and click
donate and find our learning guides under our podcast menu. Support for The Children's Hour provided by New Mexico Arts, a division of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs and by the National Endowment for the Arts, support for The Children's Hour provided by the City of Albuquerque Cultural Services Department, and the Urban Enhancement Trust Fund. Many thanks to the Outpost Performance Space for hosting The Children's Hour. Keep up with
The Children's Hour and sign up for our monthly newsletter at childrenshour.org. Do you have an old car, boat or motorcycle that's cluttering your yard? You can turn that unwanted vehicle into kids' public radio. Just go to ChildrensHour.org to learn more. Feet and head, these are the body parts of the squid. Mantle and feet, mantle and head, these are the body parts of the squid. Head and feet, feet and head, these are the body parts of
the squid. Mantle and feet, mantle and head, these are the body parts of the squid. First you clean it and skin it and pound it and slice it and all of your kids say EWW! Then you bread it and fry it and garlic and butter just like. Grandma used to d.o And you tell everyone that it's calamari and that sounds ever so fine. Till they learn a squid has come to the party and they refuse to dine on head and feet, feet and head. These are the body parts of the squid,
mantle and feet, mantle and head. These are the body parts of the squid, head and feet, feet and head. These are the body parts of the squid, mantle and feet, mantle and head. These are the body parts of the squid. It's calamari. It's calamari. No longer a squid. It's calamari. Just like the pasta becomes spaghetti. Now the squid, she is calamari. So serve the pasta, serve the bread Serve the salad, and serve the squid Heads and feet are part of the deal.
Heads and feet make a very good meal. You say try it, you will like it, and they find it hard to believe, so they do, and they did love the body parts of the squid. Mange pasta, mange panne, mange tutti calamari, calamari, calamari, mange tons of calamari. First you clean it and skin it and pound it and slice it and all of your kids say, ew! Then you bread it and fry it in garlic and butter just like grandma used to do. And you tell everyone that it's
calamari and that sounds ever so fine, till they learn a squid. has come to the party and they refuse to dine on head and feet, feet and head. These are the body parts of the squid, mantle and feet, mantle and head. These are the body parts of the squid, head and feet, feet and head. These are the body parts of the squid, mantle and feet, mantle and head. These are the body parts of the squid.
That was Nancy Stewart from Sing a Song of Science. And before the break, you heard Phredd with King Squid from Ukulele Awesomesauce. You're learning about squid with us today on The Children's Hour. Squid are amazing. They're essentially mollusks without protective shells. And they're like the psychedelic acrobats of the ocean. With the ability to rapidly change colors to match the seas around them. They squirt ink to hide and fool their predators.
These invertebrates are the fastest swimmers in the ocean, and the colossal squid is the largest. Their eyes are as big as footballs and can display bioluminescence. Imagine that looking at you in your submarine. Several species of squid can be self-luminous. Scientists estimate that 75 % of open ocean squid are bioluminescent. Bioluminescence is caused by an internal biochemical reaction in the squid's light organs, which can be found on the eyelid, eyeball, tentacles, and other
surfaces of their bodies. There are more than 300 species of squid found in all depths of the ocean, everywhere on Earth. You can learn a lot more about squid in our learning guide. You can find it at ChildrensHour.org. Look for the episode, Squid. This is Marsha and the Positrons, right here on The Children's Hour. Giant Squirrel Well then... They both can paddle whales. They've got tentacles, not tails. And they live down deep under the sea. They've got no bones.
It's true they have no bones, have no. When they swim under the sea on land. They can't wave like you and me can't wiggle like you and me can't dance like you and me. And they've been rarely seen by folks like you and me. But a few years ago some sailors saw one from their boat. And brought her back for scientists to study. You know what they found? Fingertips? No! Toad? They're missing something! Hair? Beakids with a book? Bagels? Bialy? Bone? Bone? Yeah, bone!
It's true they have no bones, have no bones in. When they swim under the sea um. On land they can't stop like you and me. Giant squid have very large brains, so it's likely that they're also really smart. They've got the largest eyes around, and I know how strange it's gonna sound, but they've got three instead of just one beating heart. But you know what? The squid are missing something too. Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-bones! Right? It's bones. Wanna sing about it? Ba-ba-bones. Let's sing.
They've got no bones! true. They swim under the sea. On land, oh can't tiptoe like you and me. And on land, they can't twist like you and me. They can't dance like you and can't dance like you and me. They can dance like you and me Hold the bones. Hold the rest of the octopus too. Squid is squared with your tentacle face. Squared with your tentacle face. Squid is squared with your tentacle face. Squid is squared with your tentacle face.
Red and yellow and pink and green, orange and purple and blue. You're all the colors of a rainbow squid and I wish I was a rainbow too. Red and yellow and pink and green, orange and purple and blue. You're all the colors of a rainbow squid and I wish I was a rainbow too. Squitters, Squids gotta be clack-a-buck The squitter squid's gotta be like a bird. Squid is squid, it's gotta be clack-a-bun. Square to square it's gonna be clack-a-burr.
You're red and yellow and pink and green. Orange and purple and blue. You're all the colors of a rainbow squid. And I wish I was a rainbow too Red and yellow and pink and green. Orange and purple and blue .You're all the colors of a rainbow squid .And I wish I was a rainbow too Squidy squid swims up, squidy squid swims down. Squitty squid swims up, squiddy squid swims down. Squiddy squid swims up, squiddy squid swims down. Squity squid swims up, squidy squid swims down.
You're red, yellow, pink and gree.n Orange and purple and blue. You're all the colours of a rainbow squid. And I wish I was a rainbow too. Red, yellow, pink and green. Orange and purple and blue. You're all the colours of a rainbow squid. And I wish I was a rainbow too. Red and yellow and pink and green. Orange and purple and blue. You're all the colors of a rainbow squid. And I wish I was a rainbow too. Red and yellow and pink and green. Orange and purple
and blue .You're all the colors of a rainbow squid. And I wish I was a rainbow too. Red and yellow and pink and green. Orange and purple and blue. You're all the colors of a rainbow, sweet. And I wish I was a rainbow too Red and yellow and pink and green. Orange and purple and blue. You're all that colors of a rainbow squid. And I wish I was a rainbow too I wish I was a rainbow too I wish I was a rainbow too I wish I was a rainbow too.
That was Poco Drum, right here on The Children's Hour with Rainbow Squid in the background, Podington Bear. We're learning about squid today. I hope you've enjoyed the show. I'm Katie Stone. We'd love to hear from you. Send us a message on our SpeakPipe audio. You can find it at our contact page at ChildrensHour.org. Learn more with us by finding that learning guide. Tell a teacher it meets and cites educational standards. And it makes learning about biology
a lot of fun. This is Parry Gripp, right here on The Children's Hour. Happy Squid lives beneath the sea dreaming fancy dreams for you and me far below the waves in his secret cave. Playing in the brine drinking pepper. T Far across the ocean, on the other side of the world. Admiral Raisin Toast lifts his fist to the sky and proclaims, Avast ye happy squid, I'll find ye one day, I'll find ye. uh I I'm
We've got time for just one more on The Children's Hour. This is Michael & The Rockness Monsters. We'll catch you next time. I dance with my mother, my father, my son, and my daughter. dance. you If I Bye. Would you dance with me? You squishy? I dance on the water, I dance on the land. I dance in a rock and roll octopus band. I dance. Oh, if I were an octopus. Oh, yeah. I, if I were an octopus. If I, if I.
The Children's Hour is produced by The Children's Hour Incorporated, a New Mexico nonprofit. You can find photos, playlists, learning guides, and activities for every episode at ChildrensHour.org. This episode of The Children’s Hour was written and produced by me, Katie Stone, with production help from Sarah Gabrielli, Gus Tafoya, McKenzie Graunke, Thaniel Lentz, and Sean Lovelace. Chad Scheer provided energinearing at Outpost. Amber Shiel writes our leaning guides.
Find ours at ChildrensHour.org. Look for Squid. Find our podcasts wherever you listen to podcasts or go to our Patreon.com slash The Children's Hour. Or ask your smart speaker to play The Children's Hour podcast. Our theme music was written by C.K. Barlow. The Children's Hour is distributed by Native Voice One, the Native American radio network. Thanks for listening to The Children's Hour. Kids, Public Radio. © 2026 The Children’s Hour Inc. All Rights Reserved.