A WHALE OF A TALE

"Look at this", writes Richard Freeman, who left CFZ HQ yesterday to go and do jury duty in Exeter. He gave us a link to some extraordinary photos of sperm whales gobbling giant squid, and a piece of text that begins:

'Carrying the remains of a roughly 30-foot (9-meter) giant squid in her jaws, a female sperm whale, with a calf at her side, swims near the surface off Japan's Bonin Islands (map)in the northwestern Pacific. Taken on October 15, this and other "absolutely sensational" new pictures offer rare proof of the sperm whale's taste for giant squid, said giant squid expert Steve O'Shea of the Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand.'

Read on"