Spotted moray eel

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Spotted moray eels colonise the dark recesses of the Kittiwake's interior passageways and engine compartments, emerging at night to hunt fish and crustaceans. Their distinctive cream and brown spot patterning provides camouflage among encrusting organisms, and they rely on chemoreception through paired nostrils rather than vision to locate prey. They coexist with cleaner shrimp that pick parasites from around their formidable teeth.