a hunting coalition consisting of peacock groupers or blue-spotted grouper, Cephalopholis argus, a bluefin jack or bluefin trevally, Caranx melampygus, and blue goatfish or yellowsaddle goatfish, Parupeneus cyclostomus, gather around a coral head where a moray eel is hunting, hoping to catch small fish flushed out by the eel; Honokohau, North Kona, Big Island, Hawaii, USA (Central Pacific Ocean)


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Image ID: 0038062-DPE.jpg

hunting coalition peacock grouper & moray

a hunting coalition consisting of peacock groupers or blue-spotted grouper, Cephalopholis argus, a bluefin jack or bluefin trevally, Caranx melampygus, and blue goatfish or yellowsaddle goatfish, Parupeneus cyclostomus, gather around a coral head where a moray eel is hunting, hoping to catch small fish flushed out by the eel; Honokohau, North Kona, Big Island, Hawaii, USA (Central Pacific Ocean)
Credit to: Blue Planet Archive / Doug Perrine

Image dimensions: 7105x4736

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