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| Digestive System | What starts with the beak and radula within the buccal mass, where digestive juices from the salivary glands are added and then continues down through the esophagus to the stomach? |
| Why must squids be careful to tear off and swallow small bits of food? | Because the esophagus passes through the center of the brain and food could get stuck in or damage the brain as it passes through. |
| Stomach | What's oval, half and inch long and hooked to the side and top of the caecum? |
| Caecum | The stomach is the major site for digestion and the _______ increases the surface are for the digestion of food |
| Intestine | A long tube that takes waste products from to caecum to the anus, it is the _____. |
| Anus | What organ opens into the funnel allowing the squid to release waste as it jets along? |
| Funnel retractor muscles | What attaches from the funnel to the mantle and allows the squid to point the funnel in different directions? |
| What two body parts feel like strong tendons? | The cephalic retractor and funnel retractor muscles. |
| Cephalic (head) retractor muscles | What attaches the head to the mantle? Along with the funnel retractor muscles they are the strongest part of the squid |
| Digestive glands | What provides digestive enzymes to the stomach and caecum? |
| Ink Sac | What looks like a small silver fish or sometimes like a thin black line depending on how much ink is in it? |
| What is the overall function of ink sac? | To camouflage the squid when a predator is chasing and allow the squid to jet away |
| Name 2 ways the ink sac works? | (1) squirting out black ink in the shape of a squid so the predator gets confused and (2) numbing the predators sense of smell. |
| Melanin | The ink contains the pigment (color) _____. |
