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Kapalai: Bumphead parrotfish

Bumphead parrotfish are active in the daytime and can be seen crunching corals with their powerful beaks. When they move around in schools, they are like an underwater herd of cows grazing on hard coral. Ground coral is ejected as fine sand, so you may be tanning yourself on parrotfish poo!

bumphead parrotfish

Sleeping bumphead parrotfish, night dive at jetty, May 2006

bumphead parrotfish

"I slept, I fell, I bumped my head. Ouch!", night dive at jetty, May 2006

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