Observers on a boat using acoustic equipment reported four unidentified “gloops” but then realised their recording device wasn’t plugged in.

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    1 year ago

    What does it eat? Large creatures need large amount of food. The water is fairly cold too, meaning the creature needs to eat a lot more.

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      Actually, it seems cold conditions make animals more likely to grow big in order to be more energy efficient. That is why lots of deep sea creatures are larger than their counterparts that live on the warmer waters near the surface.

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        1 year ago

        Jacob Gellar’s video on this is excellent… is a sentence you can say about many subjects. Anyway he highlights how the open ocean is kinda like deep space with zero visibility. Any square mile of open ocean is several cubic miles of water. Animals the size of cruise ships disappear at that scale.

        Not so much in one well-searched lake.

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      The people who successfully find it. That why you always hear about people looking for it but never about anyone finding it.

      /S

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      1 year ago

      It eats the wild haggis that stumble and fall into the Loch