Mediterranean moray

Photo: David Renoult · CC BY-NC

Mediterranean moray eels are ubiquitous in the granite boulder fields of La Maddalena, exploiting the labyrinthine crevices that the geology provides. Multiple large individuals often share a single boulder complex, maintaining loose social hierarchies and occasionally hunting cooperatively with grouper — a cooperative predation behaviour documented in the wild. They are predominantly nocturnal but are regularly spotted with heads protruding from holes during day dives.