I just can’t seem to get away from the hunting and eating theme.
During my first dive this morning, I heard my dive guide Nonsix shouting my name (in muffled underwater-speak), and turned to see that a lizardfish had just snagged a little puffer:
The pufferfish, being understandably unhappy with the sudden turn of events, tried to escape. The little fish nearly broke free, but the hungry predator re-captured it in short order:
It took a while, but the lizardfish managed to swallow its meal in the end, despite the fact that the pufferfish stayed inflated the entire time:
Incidentally, a group of divers from the United States who are also here at Kasawari saw a flounder eat a mimic octopus this morning.
I wasn’t anywhere near them, so it’s not just stuff around me that’s getting eaten!
Wow! – spectacular sequence!
OMG, cool photos! And a flounder eats an octopus. Sad for me as i LOVE octopi but would have been cool to see nonetheless!
I love predation.
When I was in Ambon, I saw a 12″ flounder get nailed and pulled into the sand by an unidentified creature in the sand. Huge bobbit worm, maybe? I was like 2 feet away lined up to shoot macro when the thing exploded into a sandstorm and was pulled under.
No photos, unfortunately… but it did make me a little worried every time I rested my hand on the sand.
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