The Red Sea, sandwiched between northeast Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, is teeming with life, including octopuses and more than a thousand species of fish.
Every day, the goal of these creatures is the same.
“Anything that is smaller than them and can fit their mouth, they’re going to try to eat,” says Eduardo Sampaio, a behavioral biologist at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Konstanz, Germany.
He was intrigued by descriptions of different species hunting together among the coral reefs in large groups. “Not just one octopus and one fish,” Sampaio says. “We’re talking about one octopus and five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten very different fish.”
