Sloppy eating habits can be hazardous to your health

If you're a squid, that is.

Apparently squids of the species Martialia hyadesi like to eat oily fish. They're messy, so they leave oil in the water, which floats to the surface. Grey-headed albatrosses, meanwhile, like to eat squid. They cue in to these oil slicks and dive to catch the squid, which are probably still in a food coma after that nice big fatty meal.

I made up the bit about a food coma. But everything else is in this paper:

The characteristics of the squid and their proximity to the surface suggest that the birds locate squid concentrations by olfaction and catch them by plunging.

What I want to know: will the squid learn to be tidier eaters? Maybe use
napkins? Or will they switch to a less smelly prey item?

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