Reply With QuoteThis is an amazing article. Groupers and moray eels have learned to communicate with each other and hunt together to increase their success rate.
PFK Fishnews: Groupers and moray eels hunt cooperatively
Groupers and Giant moray eels use interspecific and communicative hunting, according to a recent scientific paper.
Plectropomus pessuliferus and Gymnothorax javanicus have been observed working with each other to catch prey in the Red Sea. Their normal hunting strategies are quite different. Groupers are semi-benthic piscivores, which hunt in open water. Moray eels sneak through crevices to corner their prey in holes.
Prey avoid eel predation by swimming into open water, and avoid grouper predation by hiding in crevices. A coordinated hunt confronts prey with a multipredator attack that is difficult to avoid.
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Last edited by benny; 7th Jan 2007 at 00:11.
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This is an amazing article. Groupers and moray eels have learned to communicate with each other and hunt together to increase their success rate.
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Truly amazing. It's almost like wolves and big cats cooperating together to bring down large prey.
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