Editing Vampire squid (section)

===Feeding===
Vampire squid have eight arms but lack feeding tentacles (like octopods), and instead use two retractile filaments in order to capture food. These filaments have small hairs on them, made up of many sensory cells, that help them detect and secure their prey. They combine waste with mucus secreted from the suckers to form balls of food. As [[Sedentary lifestyle|sedentary]] generalist feeders, they feed on [[marine snow|detritus]], including the remains of [[gelatinous zooplankton]] (such as [[salp]]s, [[larvacea]]ns, and medusae [[Jellyfish|jellies]]) and complete crustaceans, such as [[copepod]]s, [[ostracod]]s, [[Amphipoda|amphipod]]s, and [[Isopoda|isopod]]s,{{sfn|Hoving|Robison|2012}} as well as faecal pellets of other aquatic organisms that live above.<ref name=":0">{{cite web |first=Hannah |last=Krakauer |url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22299-vampire-squid-from-hell-eats-faeces-to-survive-depths/ |website=[[New Scientist]] |date=26 September 2012 |title=Vampire squid from hell eats faeces to survive depths|access-date=7 May 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://sta.uwi.edu/fst/lifesciences/sites/default/files/lifesciences/documents/ogatt/Vampyroteuthis_infernalis%20-%20Vampire%20Squid.pdf|title=''Vampyrotheuthis infernalis'' (Vampire Squid)|website=The Online Guide to the Animals of Trinidad and Tobago|publisher=[[University of the West Indies|UWI]]|access-date=24 May 2022}}</ref> Vampire squids also use a unique luring method where they purposefully agitate [[Bioluminescent bacteria|bioluminescent protist]]s in the water as a way to attract larger prey for them to consume.{{sfn|Hoving|Robison|2012}}

The mature vampire squid is also thought to be an opportunistic hunter of larger prey as fish bones and [[fish scale|scale]]s, along with gelatinous plankton, has been recorded in mature vampire squid stomachs.<ref name="Golikov 2019 19099">{{Cite journal |last=Golikov |first=A. V. |title=The first global deep-sea stable isotope assessment reveals the unique trophic ecology of Vampire Squid Vampyroteuthis infernalis (Cephalopoda) |journal=Nature |year=2019 |volume=9 |issue=1 |page=19099 |doi=10.1038/s41598-019-55719-1 |pmid=31836823 |pmc=6910912 |bibcode=2019NatSR...919099G}}</ref>