Shark Storm.

Remember the giant trevally (Caranx ignobilis)? Yes, the same cute fish last night that ate the bird? In fact, this fish is far from cute. This is an aggressive killer monster that can break your ribs.

I would even call him a terrorist from the world of fish, who keeps the poor reef sharks at bay. And by the way, they can almost double the size of a giant trevally! There was a case when a couple of these half-meter monsters killed an almost two-meter shark by ambushing it.

Using their own heads as battering rams, they hit fish on the gills, stunning them. Then, swimming back to disperse, they again rammed the shark into the same place, preventing it from recovering. Blow after blow, the sweet couple turned shark gills into minced meat. And only when the helpless victim began to convulse with the tail fin, the monsters stopped. Stopped only to watch a bleeding shark give his soul to Poseidon.

The killing of the shark was unnecessarily brutal and, interestingly, it was clearly not done in self-defense or foraging. The giant trevelly did not even touch the killed animal, leaving it to be eaten by other marine life.

You can, of course, say that this was an isolated case, but there is only one “but”. The giant traveler often kills sharks as soon as he sees them. And by the way, this does not always work in pairs. The fish itself is large, often one person can handle it. The length of the trevally can exceed one and a half meters, sometimes growing up to 170 centimeters. For comparison, the maximum length of the black reef shark is 160 centimeters.

The giant trevally was popularly nicknamed the KING FISH only for its lifestyle. If you are not familiar with this fish personally, this is definitely a reason to rejoice. A case is known when this creature attacked a diver, breaking three of his ribs. The man, fortunately, survived.

It is interesting that, by driving sharks into the gills, the giant traveler himself receives damage, but does not pay attention to injuries, because killing the enemy is more important for him than licking his own wounds. Indeed, this fish is very aggressive, but at the same time it is a predator. Supreme Predator. Trevalli kills and devours everything that fits into his mouth. And when I say everything, I mean absolutely everything. Prey include worms, crayfish, mollusks, birds, and even medium-sized marine mammals such as monk seals.

To kill such a seal, giant caravans gather in groups resembling swarms of Komodo dragons hunting big game together. When hunting, fish exhibit very complex behavior: there is surveillance, a strategy of intimidation, the search for weak points of the animal, a seal in the direction of the general accumulation of fish.

It would seem that stupid, literally stubborn fish can oppose mammals with a developed (relative to fish, of course) brain? But everything in life happens, and happens.

But back to our ba... fish.

However, the giant trevelly is mostly a solitary animal, although there are known cases of living together in groups of 2-4 individuals. And really large flocks of ten or more animals are formed very rarely, mainly during the feeding period or, again, when hunting big game.

Solitary adults are attached to an individual home range in which they can live for several years. They are tolerant of other representatives of their species, looking at the light, but for excessive impudence they can be beaten and kicked out.

Fish live in tropical and subtropical waters of the Indo-Pacific region. They live and do not complain about life. Why complain if even sharks are afraid of you?