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variety of frangible teeth that are located near the back of the throat in other large grouper species. Call it a test of the stomach’s constitution, but when something like a large angry blue crab is turned into lunch, it goes to the belly of the goliath alive and snapping. The final element dictating the goliath’s diet is the manner in which it will hunt. Instead of roaming long distances, it will often remain in a relatively small area, settling for whatever passes by (juvenile’s around mangrove islands have a considerably small home range, but the home range of adults may be a lot larger). 2 Off Florida’s East Coast, schools of redear herring and round scad will make their migration as far south as Jupiter, between late spring and early summer. As a defense against predation, the small shiny fish form up in tight polarized clouds, sometimes around stationary objects, so as to block and confuse rushing attacks from jacks, mackerel and cuda. For goliaths, this defense posture becomes easy to manipulate, allowing the small fish to mass up around them while at the same time slowly moving away from the wreck or reef where they are more exposed to attack. Before instinct can warn them of their mistake, faster moving predators begin their onslaught, driving the baitfish into a tighter ball up around the goliath’s head. For these big fish to get a meal, the act is as simple as taking a deep breath. www.underwaterjournal.com June/July 2007
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