TEAM WORK: white eyed moray eel and groupers hunting.

This grouper is trying his best to entice the moray eel to hunt with them. Groupers are big, thick fish that hunt in daytime off the coral reefs. Moray eels hunt by slithering through the reef at night fitting into narrow cracks. When both hunt together, prey barely stands a chance: hide in the reef, the eel catches you; make a run for open water, the grouper snatches you up. Groupers appear to have put the pieces of the puzzle together. Because when hunting together both animals are 5x’s as successful as when hunting alone. A Groupers whose prey had just slipped into a crack in the reef. Swims over to the nearest moray (white eyed in this case) as it lay in its daytime resting place, and perform a strange head-shaking dance, waving its dorsal fin and rubbing up against it. Most of the time, the eel responds by following the grouper, which repeated the dance more slowly over the crevice where the little fish was hiding.