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Squid

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Fauna does not yet have a full sourced identification profile for this name, so this page keeps the relevant reading together without inventing missing species detail.

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Field guideHow squid use jet propulsionA squid is a pulsed water pump with fins. It draws water around the head into the mantle cavity, closes that route, squeezes the mantle, and ejects a directed jet through the funnel to accelerate in the opposite direction.