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📍 Sipadan Island, Semporna
Such an exhilarating experience when this large school of Bumphead parrotfish (Bolbometopon muricatum) swam towards me! I took this video in Sipadan, in a dive site called Midreef.
Did you know that the Bumphead parrotfish can grow to lengths of 1.5 m (4.9 ft) and weigh up to 75 kg (165 lb)? This amazing species perform a very important function in their grazing – they are the gardeners of the reef, removing algae that compete with corals. This prevents the corals from being overgrown and becoming smothered. They spent much of the day nibbling away at the reef. The rock and coral skeleton ingested is ground up through their teeth and by molar-like teeth in their throats. The indigestible material is then defecated “pooped” out as smooth white sand. Yes, sand!
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