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    The giant moray (Gymnothorax javanicus) is a species of moray eel and a species of marine fish in the family Muraenidae. In terms of body mass, it is...
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    The slender giant moray or Gangetic moray, Strophidon sathete, is the longest member of the family of moray eels. It is in the genus Strophidon. The longest...
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    observed recruiting giant morays to help them hunt. The invitation to hunt is initiated by head-shaking. This style of hunting may allow morays to flush prey...
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    with heat before eating. Moray eels also produce toxic mucus, and can store toxins in their flesh and organs. The giant moray is a reef fish at the top...
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    one-jawed eel (Monognathus ahlstromi) to 4 m (13 ft) in the slender giant moray. Adults range in weight from 30 g (1 oz) to well over 25 kg (55 lb)....
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    roving coralgroupers (Plectropomus pessuliferus) sometimes cooperate with giant morays in hunting. Groupers are also one of the only animals that eat invasive...
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    marisrubri) and giant moray eels (Gymnothorax javanicus) provide compelling evidence for interspecific cooperative hunting. Groupers visit moray eels at their...
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  • triggerfish and should not be disturbed if tending to eggs. Moray eels such as the Giant moray are only occasionally aggressive; most bites result from divers...
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    Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. The Meg, the giant moray eel Great Abaia, and the giant squid Lusca. The Great are 3 sea monsters featured as...
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    ciguatera toxin from glands on its skin. Like many other apex reef fish, the giant moray can cause ciguatera poisoning if eaten. The stargazer buries itself in...
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  • Macaque (3rd place) Yak (5th place) Blue ringed octopus (2nd place) Giant moray eel (4th place) Gaur (2nd place) Banded sea krait (3rd place) Asian forest...
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    range of marine life, for instance hawksbill turtle, giant sunfish, giant manta ray, giant moray eel, bumphead parrotfish, hammerhead shark, reef shark...
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    The giant moray eel is most active by night. Its brain has adapted to rely less on visual input and more on its sense of smell....
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    and crustaceans. They sometimes engage in cooperative hunting with the giant moray (Gymnothorax javanicus), the humphead wrasse (Cheilinus undulatus), or...
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    reproduction in spring. They sometimes engage in cooperative hunting with the giant moray (Gymnothorax javanicus), the humphead wrasse (Cheilinus undulatus), or...
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    and coral trout spot prey that is inaccessible to them, they signal to giant moray eels, Napoleon wrasses or octopuses. These predators are able to access...
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    The longest fish in the order, at up to 4 m (13 ft), is the slender giant moray (Strophidon sathete) of the Indo-Pacific oceans. Silversides (Atheriniformes)...
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    "Interspecific Communicative and Coordinated Hunting between Groupers and Giant Moray Eels in the Red Sea". PLOS Biology. 4 (12): e431. doi:10.1371/journal...
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    sleeping hole of a giant moray and shake their head at the moray, and this seems to be an invitation to group hunting as the moray often swims away with...
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    of fish, including the blue-spotted fantail ray, emperor angelfish, giant moray, parrotfish, redmouth grouper, Red Sea bannerfish and clearfin lionfish...
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  • time, Ecco travels to the Moray Abyss, where he finds the first two globes of the Asterite after clearing out the giant moray eels. He then journeys to...
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    1859) (Giant moray) Gymnothorax johnsoni (J. L. B. Smith, 1962) (White-spotted moray) Gymnothorax kidako (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846) (Kidako moray) Gymnothorax...
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  • Gymnothorax javanicus, Giant moray Gymnothorax meleagris, Turkey moray Gymnothorax moluccensis, Moluccan moray Gymnothorax monochrous, Drab moray Gymnothorax nudivomer...
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    with many fish, including the regal blue tang, and marine eels like the giant moray. Apex Predators of the Seas Visitors walk through a tunnel that allows...
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    American crocodiles (Crocodylus acutus), geckos eating mosquitoes on Aldabra giant tortoises (Geochelone gigantea) and scarlet crabs (Grapsus grapsus), and...
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    the big fish becomes a race". The New York Times. Retrieved 3 March 2013. Giant Catfish May Be World's Largest Freshwater Fish National Geographic, 28 October...
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    Zanclidae - Moorish idol". fishbase.mnhn.fr. "FAMILY Details for Muraenidae - Moray eels". fishbase.mnhn.fr. "FAMILY Details for Mugilidae - Mullets". fishbase...
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    numerous branches of the tree of life, from microbes to humans top: A giant moray eel being cleaned by a cleaner fish and a burying beetle begins to prepare...
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  • cod, Queensland groper, humphead wrasse, barramundi as well as giant moray, zebra moray. There are several shark species including blacktip reef sharks...
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    Giant moray Gymnothorax meleagris (native), Turkey moray Gymnothorax monochrous (native), Drab moray Gymnothorax monostigma (native), One-spot moray Gymnothorax...
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