Interspecific Communicative and Coordinated Hunting between Groupers and Giant Moray Eels in the Red Sea

Redouan Bshary; Andrea Hohner; Karim Ait-el-Djoudi; Hans Fricke

doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0040431

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Interspecific Communicative and Coordinated Hunting between Groupers and Giant Moray Eels in the Red Sea

Redouan Bshary ,

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Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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Andrea Hohner,

Affiliations Department of Zoology, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland , University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Karim Ait-el-Djoudi,

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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Hans Fricke

Affiliations Max-Planck-Institut für Verhaltensphysiologie Seewiesen, Starnberg, Germany , Leibniz-Institut für Meereswissenschaften (GEOMAR), Universität Kiel, Kiel, Germany
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Interspecific Communicative and Coordinated Hunting between Groupers and Giant Moray Eels in the Red Sea

Redouan Bshary,
Andrea Hohner,
Karim Ait-el-Djoudi,
Hans Fricke

Published: December 5, 2006
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0040431

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Observation and reference

Posted by PLOSBiology on 07 May 2009 at 22:15 GMT

Author: Jonathan Miller
Position: Dive Instructor / Attorney
Institution: Self
E-mail: jon.jonmiller@gmail.com
Submitted Date: January 02, 2007
Published Date: January 2, 2007
This comment was originally posted as a “Reader Response” on the publication date indicated above. All Reader Responses are now available as comments.

My son and I have observed moray eel - grouper interactions in the waters while diving near Key Largo. Additionally this fish behavior was reported in a book, Fish Behavior by DeLoach and Humann. This is a lovely study. Kudos.

No competing interests declared.

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