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Electric Crab (Achaeus spinosus) with transplanted anemones for defence and camouflage on Ascidian (Ascidiidae Family), night dive, Torpedo Alley dive site, Horseshoe Bay, Nusa Kode, south Rinca Island, Komodo National Park, Indonesia

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Electric Crab (Achaeus spinosus) with transplanted anemones for defence and camouflaged on Ascidian (Ascidiidae Family), night dive, Torpedo Alley dive site, Horseshoe Bay, Nusa Kode, south Rinca Island, Komodo National Park, Indonesia

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© Franco Banfi / Biosphoto

Brandt's cormorant (Phalacrocorax penicillatus), feeding on a bait ball of sardines, Los Islotes, Espiritu Santo Island, La Paz Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico, East Pacific Ocean

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Brandt's cormorant (Phalacrocorax penicillatus), feeding on a bait ball of sardines, Los Islotes, Espiritu Santo Island, La Paz Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico, East Pacific Ocean

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Brandt's cormorant (Phalacrocorax penicillatus), feeding on a bait ball of sardines, Los Islotes, Espiritu Santo Island, La Paz Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico, East Pacific Ocean

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© Franco Banfi / Biosphoto

An unbelievable large school of sardines, moving as one unit, opens while each individual tries to escape at the maw of grouper and dentex. The tiny sardines found themselves in a situation which limited their chances of survival, since they were locked up between the surface and the shallow bottom, with very few possibilities to escape the predators’ mouths. The large school was so big to darken the natural light coming through the surface in the shallow water and frantically moved apart under the attacks of the groupers and dentex, to reassemble shortly after. The school of fishes continually changed shapes, similarly to the flocks of starlings in the sky.
I remained hours in the shallow water, doing my best to take a representative picture, while avoiding to be part of the feast. Species : Sardines, Leopard grouper (Mycteroperca rosacea), Dentex
Conservation status : Least concerned Location: Los Islotes rockeries, Espiritu Santo archipelago, Sea of Cortez, Mexico The area was declared part of a Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO in 1995

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© Franco Banfi / Biosphoto

California Sea Lion (Zalophus californianus) feeding on sardine's bait ball (Sardinops sagax), Magdalena Bay, West Coast of Baja California Peninsula, Pacific Ocean, Mexico

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Striped marlin (Tetrapturus audax) feeding on sardine's bait ball (Sardinops sagax), Magdalena Bay, West Coast of Baja California Peninsula, Pacific Ocean, Mexico

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Striped marlin (Tetrapturus audax) feeding on sardine's bait ball (Sardinops sagax), Magdalena Bay, West Coast of Baja California Peninsula, Pacific Ocean, Mexico

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Cape Cormorants (Phalacrocorax capensis; Endangered) swimming amongst school of Southern African Pilchards (Sardinops sagax) with sun in background, Port St. Johns, Wild Coast, Eastern Cape, Transkei, South Africa, Africa, Indian Ocean

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© Gabriel Barathieu / Biosphoto

School of sweetlips in very very tight formation. The purpose of this training is to intimidate a potential predator who wants to attack these fish. We notice that there are two species of sweetlips in this big ball of fish. Ribbon diagram (Plectorhinchus polytaenia) and Yellowbanded Sweetlip (Plectorhinchus lineatus, Raja Ampat, Indonesia

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Striped marlin (Tetrapturus audax) feeding on sardine's bait ball (Sardinops sagax), Magdalena Bay, West Coast of Baja California, Pacific Ocean, Mexico

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Striped marlin (Kajikia audax) feeding on sardine's bait ball (Sardinops sagax), Magdalena Bay, West Coast of Baja California, Pacific Ocean, Mexico

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© Franco Banfi / Biosphoto

California Sea Lion (Zalophus californianus) feeding on sardine's bait ball (Sardinops sagax), Magdalena Bay, West Coast of Baja California, Pacific Ocean, Mexico

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© Jeffrey Rotman / Biosphoto

Giant Pacific Octopus (Octopus dofleini) inking, British Columbia, Canada - Northern Pacific Ocean.

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© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto

To try to defend the colony from this incessant predation, the bees fight back by forming a cluster on the flight board. They thus save a few foraging bees returning after gathering nectar and pollen from the flowers. France

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© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto

Face-off between David and Goliath. The bee has no chance of defeating the formidable predator that is the Asian hornet Vespa velutina.

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© Gabriel Barathieu / Biosphoto

Octopus (Octopus sp.) spewing his ink in the lagoon, Mayotte, Indian Ocean.

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Armadillo girdled lizard (Cordylus cataphractus), South Africa, South Africa

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© Robin Hoskyns / Biosphoto

Mossy leaf-tailed Gecko in a defensive position - Madagascar ; When disturbed these geckos arch their back and tail and gape their mouth.

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Orcas hunt in a bench Herring - Norway

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© Gérard Soury / Biosphoto

Schoal of Sardinellas and diver - Cebu Philippines

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© Michel Bureau / Biosphoto

Cape pangolin curled at night - Botswana

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Ghost crab on beach - Haapai Tonga

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© Christopher Swann / Biosphoto

Large ball of Blue jack mackerel Azores

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© Christopher Swann / Biosphoto

Cory's sheerwater and common dolphin preying jack mackerel

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© Christopher Swann / Biosphoto

Shark at top of a large ball of Blue jack mackerel Azores

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© Christopher Swann / Biosphoto

Blue jack mackerel being preyed upon by common dolphins

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© Gérard Soury / Biosphoto

Atlantic sailboats hunting a shoal of Pilchards Mexico 

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Green Racer in the Kaâ-Lia NP Bolivia

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Flying Gurnard on bottom Dominica Caribbean Sea

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© Reinhard Dirscherl / Biosphoto

Atlantic Sailfish hunting Sardines schoal Mexico

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© Jeffrey Rotman / Biosphoto

Guieafowl Pufferfish inflated with water in open ocean ; Yellow Form 

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© Christophe Perelle / Biosphoto

Territorial dispute between Whiskered tern on a pond

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© Xavier Eichaker / Biosphoto

Mante land defence posture, United Arab Emirates

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© Alain Dragesco-Joffé / Biosphoto

Male Gilded jackal showing the hooks close to bone Sahara

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Humpback Whales predating & eating in group Alaska USA

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A cormorant swims through baitfish under the oil rigs in Southern California.

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A sea lion hunts for baitfish under the oil rigs in Southern California.

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Sea lions play among the baitfish under the California Oil Rigs, Southern California.

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Male sand lizard (Lacerta agilis) in courting colours, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

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Panther chameleon (Furcifer pardalis), male, sitting on a branch, Nosy Faly Island, Northwest Madagascar, Madagascar, Africa

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Long-tailed pangolin (Phataginus tetradactyla) in the hands of a poacher, bushmeat, Mangamba, Littoral Province, Cameroon, Africa

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Fire-bellied Toad in defensive posture - Germany

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© Marie Aymerez / Biosphoto

Pill woodlice (Armadillidium sp.) unrolling, Bouches-du-Rhone, France

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Red panda (Ailurus fulgens) observing in defensive posture, September Southwest China

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© Vincent Premel / Biosphoto

Peacock katydid (Pterochroza ocellata) in defensive posture, Kourou, French Guiana

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© Colin Marshall / Biosphoto

Electric Crab (Achaeus spinosus) with transplanted anemones for defence and camouflage on Ascidian (Ascidiidae Family), night dive, Torpedo Alley dive site, Horseshoe Bay, Nusa Kode, south Rinca Island, Komodo National Park, Indonesia

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Imperial Shag also called King Shag, blue-eyed Shag, blue-eyed Cormorant (Phalacrocorax atriceps or Leucarbo atriceps) in a huge rookery. Adult with chick in nest. South America, Falkland Islands, January

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Imperial Shag also called King Shag, blue-eyed Shag, blue-eyed Cormorant (Phalacrocorax atriceps or Leucarbo atriceps) in a huge rookery. South America, Falkland Islands, January