In the below video a seasnake catches a moray eel at Giant Clam, Puerto Galera, Mindoro, Philippines. I believe the eel is a fimbriated moray, Gymnothorax fimbriatus which can reach lengths of of about 2.5 feet and apparently can make a fetching design for a dress. The sea snake appears to be the banded sea krait, Laticauda colubrina. Females can reach lengths of 4.5 feet.
Wait for the M. Night Shyamalan twist ending.
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And THAT is why I love morays!!
“See that thing in the reef, with the big shiny teeth, that’s a moray”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x6lpTLE3aw
I disagree with the dress comment. There is nothing fetching about that alleged “dress.”
I wrote a paper in Journal of Fish Biology on Moray Eels when I researched them in New Zealand. Love eels especially moray eels. I used to knock them out with clove oil and then put acoustic tags inside of them. I always used to think of hte parralels between alien abductions and what I was doing because I literally woudl be a bright shining love coming from above, taking them to a ship, knocking them out, putting things up there anus (acoustic tag), and then freeing them again to observe them.
Anyway I digress. They were tough as old boots and it’s no suprise to me that the moray made a comeback. I read a paper during the time that there were many moray eel species that would consume snakes and what they would do is get bitten by them to build up resistance to the poisen. I almost wonder if that was what the eel was doing?
Feel free to edit my grammar mistakes, yikes.
I think the snake gave up partly because that was entirely too large of a meal for him. He was right to regurge, that meal was waaay too big, not to mention his venom wasn’t having much of an effect. Kudos to the Moray on that, Krait venom is pretty potent. Not to mention, the Moray bite is nothing to screw around with and that meal was definitely still chomping back.
I’m surprised the eel was so slow respording. What chance the snake would run out of O2 with a struggle like that? Those eels do have a good set of dentures as the snake discovered. SU comes to mind?
I wonder too if the moray’s skin is just too thick for the snakes fangs to get through to deliver a good dose. We’ll never know, but I guess the lesson here is “Never give up” :-)
True, It’s Really difficult to make out what really it is
Now that is what I call a vicious circle. ;P