New Zealand squid expert Steve O'Shea says he will mount a new expedition in July next year to film "sex-crazed" giant squid in the wild. Dr O'Shea plans to film about 600m below the sea surface off the West Coast, after squirting squid pheromones, sexual scents, into the ocean. The extracts of male and female giant squid sex organs will be squirted from a remotely-operated submersible, the latest New Scientist magazine reports. He hopes the pheromone will attract squid long enough for a good opportunity to film them. "These things come into New Zealand waters to breed," Dr O'Shea said of the squid. "They're sex-crazed". In a paper submitted to the New Zealand Journal of Zoology, Dr O'Shea and his assistant, Kat Bolstad have described finding fragments of the end of a giant squid tentacle in the stomach of a female. He said it probably was not intentional cannibalism – but the tentacle of a male swept too close to a female's "beak" during mating and she ate it.

A squid expert at the Melbourne Museum, Mark Norman, and his colleague Chung-Cheng Lu, six years ago investigated the first recorded mated female giant squid, and found sperm packages or "spermatophores" embedded in the skin of the female's arms, where it is stored until the female is ready to use it.

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It appears that Dr O'shea and his partner Kat are currently working on a giant squid breeding program as well . I've been looking for a story on it for the site . I think those two have got the coolest job .

You know, I'll be honest. If I were a giant squid, I'd be sex-crazed too. What else are you going to do? You're a giant friggin' squid. You eat... and breed. And hope that you don't end up fried and served with ranch dressing on a plate at Pelicans.