I have never been so blown away by a photograph of an animal so familiar to me. This moray just doesn’t even look real!
This image was taken by Philippe Guillaume, who is very generous to be uploading shots like these under a creative commons/fair use license.
Moray eels look pretty frightening, some species exceed ten feet and even a medium-size moray is strong enough to bite off a human finger…but the same can be said of many pet dogs, and morays are in fact easily tameable. Large aquarium specimens seem to enjoy being scratched, petted and snuggled by divers in their tanks.
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“Did you know you could perhaps kill somebody”
“Yes but I wanted to do hood rat stuff for my friend”
