Giant moray eel and grouper hunting together as a team

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Giant moray eel and grouper hunting together as a team. These large predators didn't seem to be bothered much by me getting close to them during this dive. In fact, the animals gave me a great chance to film the entire hunting show. I even think that the grouper was using the light of my video torch as some sort of hunting aid. Small fish had no chance whatsoever when these two came along. A deadly show at night at a shallow depth on the USAT Liberty wreck in Tulamben, northern Bali.
It is not so uncommon for different species of animals cooperating with each other. Different animals hunting together are quite often seen in the wild, both above and below the waterline.
This dive spot is highly recommended for night diving by the way, as it has easy entry and exit points from the nearby shore (a cobble beach with direct access to the road) and the depth is rather shallow (-5 m to -32 m).

Location: Nightdive at the USAT Liberty wreck in Tulamben, Bali, Indonesia
Depth: between -32 m and -5 m

A big thank you to Kevin MacLeod for letting me use his song:

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About the roving coral grouper and moray eel hunting together (Wikipedia)

These fishes live in coral reefs, in shallow lagoon and seaward reefs, at a depth range of 25 – 147 m. This carnivorous species mainly feed on fishes and crustaceans. They sometimes engage in cooperative hunting with the giant moray (Gymnothorax javanicus), the humphead wrasse (Cheilinus undulatus), or the big blue octopus (Octopus cyanea).
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Moray Eel: I don't need friends... I am a lone hunter and I like it that way!
Grouper: Oh, hi, friend! Let's engage in jolly cooperation!
Moray Eel: :, )

thejawgz
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people say the moray eels are creepy, but i have to disagree. This is some of the purest friendship I've ever seen

ackee
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The music makes them look silky and goofy. Nice

illuviium
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When a grouper attacks fish fleeing form cracks, that’s a morray

KingJulian
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Groupers and morrays are friends like tiger and lion together.

Maniacguy
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I SEE IT AND I STILL CAN'T BELIEVE IT.

Khultan
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This would be a good disney animation lol

niamtxiv
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Does the coral at 2:02 look like a face? Top center of screen, eel swims right in front of the face. Tilt your head to the left for better visualization.

tenkkhan
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Now this hunting style we like to refer to as "operation cooperation". For reasons...

thejman
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More likely, the Grouper identifies as an Eel. didnt you see the Moray makeup it had on

inspectorkemp
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Why do people dislike because of the music? You know you can just... you know... mute the video right?

ackee
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Do they always hunt in the dark or are they just taking advantage of the artificial light?

gd
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So i was doing some research and turns out if a Moray Eel decides it doesnt want to go on a hunt, the grouper will eat the moray eel. Its interesting how that while groupers can eat moray eels, they sometimes want to work with them

burmessafox
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Hunting together until one of them feels a lil' too peckish.
Lol

PrincipledNaturalLaw
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Title misleading, music from a bad Disney movie..

tollyt