[Coral-List] moray eels can eat on land

[KEVEN REED]

Dear Doug & coral-listers,

Reminds me of the behavior I personally witnessed in Curacao:  the eels were in the same genus, Echidna, and sometimes came out of the ocean water.  I was dining with my wife on the porch of a local restaurant next to the tidepools, when the restaurant staff came by our table and dumped kitchen scraps onto the rocks below the rail.  At first we were taken aback but then realized the action was to put provide amusement for the restaurant's guest, as many Caribbean chain moray eels, Echidna catenata, emerged from the tidepools & rocks to ravenously dine in front of us diners near the seashore. 

Keven Reed
mobile: 904-505-7277
Fleming Island, FL 32003
USA

> On 06/26/2021 4:22 PM Douglas Fenner via Coral-List <coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> wrote:
> 
>  
> Moray eels enjoy surf 'n turf with a surprise second set of jaws
> 
> https://www.popsci.com/animals/moray-eels-second-jaws/
> 
> Snowflake moray eels, *Echidna nebulosa*, exhibit similar feeding
> kinematics in terrestrial and aquatic treatments
> 
> https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/224/11/jeb234047/269098/Snowflake-morays-Echidna-nebulosa-exhibit-similar
> 
> Cheers, Doug
> 
> -- 
> Douglas Fenner
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> https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/climate-deadlines-super-pollutants-hfcs-methane/2021/04/15/acb8c612-9d7d-11eb-b7a8-014b14aeb9e4_story.html
> 
> Humans have destroyed 97% of earth's ecosystems
> (well, more like only 3% are fully intact)
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> Study: One-third of plant and animal species could be gone in 50 years.
> (but 2-4 times worse in tropics)
> https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-02/uoa-soo021220.php
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