So what’s the big idea with puffer fish? Puff out, frighten off your enemy and make yourself too big to eat. It’s apparently quite a successful strategy.
But just occasionally even the best-laid plans go awry.
(Image taken at Seven Mile Beach on Grand Cayman via Reddit. See another pic of the same pair. Eel is probably a Green Moray Eel (Gymnothorax funebris). No ID on the fish.)
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In fact, not uncommon at all. Here’s another, not sure whether it’s a puffer fish or two in there, but the idea is the same.
Eel and fish