Possible Mesonychoteuthis sucker marks on an antarctic sleeper shark

[Sordes]

Not a shark, but a pilot whale (from the faroe islands), also with some well visible squid sucker scars, which are where the 66 sign was cut:
http://www.taz.de/picture/94429/948/01.09.Grindwal_Da__nemark_imago.jpg

 

[Sordes]

The squid which caused this scars was obviously not a very big one, but as there are really only quite few photos of sucker scars on whales online, I still found this noteworthy.

 

[Sordes]

There seems to be some other sucker scars, especially around the mouth, and perhaps some bigger ones in the throat area, the ones I circled red are the best visible ones.

 

[DWhatley]

Are you sure those are not manmade marks?

 

[Sordes]

The two cuts which looks like 66 (it seems they get numbers cut in the head, as I´ve seen other ones with other numbers at this part of the head) are of course man-made. But at the very same skin area is also a horizontal double row of clear sucker marks.

 

[Sordes]

 

[DWhatley]

Ah, I enlarged the image (500%) and saw the clear squid marks.