Giant Moray Eel

Photo: urschka · CC BY-NC

Giant morays are keystone nocturnal predators at Labas, controlling populations of fish and crustaceans that shelter in the reef's complex coral matrix during the day. They are frequently observed in cooperative hunts with grouper, an extraordinary interspecies hunting behaviour documented across Indo-Pacific reefs. Multiple resident individuals occupy fixed territories in the large coral bommies along Labas's eastern wall.