Talk:Moray eel

message: What does "cosmopolitan" mean, as in "Moray eels are large cosmopolitan eels"? Kent Wang 17:00, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: In an ecological sense, it means moray eels are widely distributed; they occur in many parts of the world's oceans. (Speaking in terms of the family as a whole rather than individual species.) -- Hadal 10:19, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

text: C'est moi! >LePierrotAnguille 05:33, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  cosmopolitan 

message: I had it once in Shanghai. It was delicious. Don't know enough about morays as food, but maybe someone more knowledgeable can jump in? Kent Wang 02:12, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  As food 

message: :There's an eel with big teeth,
:And it lives in a reef -
:That's a moray...
:Sorry!
:: - Astatine 16:22, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: My apologies for posting in the wrong section, but I am still figuring out how to use Wikipedia. I was wondering if more could be added about things like reproduction and feeding habits? I realize that the information about feeding habits is spread throughout the article, but perhaps it could be its own section, for to find information about when morays hunt I had to look under Reputation, and the information on what the moray eats (as well as the predators of the moray) was under Anatomy. Could information about anguilliform swimming or the nares also be added? Upsidedowndiver (talk) 14:45, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Dean Martin]]

message: The articles says:
:Morays have sometimes been described as vicious or ill-tempered. In fact, morays are shy and secretive, and they only attack humans in self-defense.
I find this hard to believe about a species large enough to bite off a human leg and swallow it whole.
:They also accidentally bite human fingers when being fed....
(1)  How could something as enormous as a Moray eel manage to bite off something as small as a finger without taking the hand with it?  Isn't this a bit like saying that a Tyrannosaurus rex might've accidentally bitten the toes off of rodents?
(2)  Who in his right mind would ever get close enough to one of these giant, bright-green sea serpents to actually try and feed it?  Is this some new, trendy method of suicide that I don't know about?  (Has the human rase managed to adapt to the highly toxic material available in the so-called "coffee" at Starbucks?)
:...because it cannot see or hear very well....
Which would explain why fewer people have their heads taken off.
:Morays hide from humans and would rather flee than fight.
Which is why these giant, bright green, anaconda-dwarfing sea monsters lie in wait for humans to pass by, snap them up, and swallow them whole.  (And probably eat any giant squids, sperm whales, great white sharks, or anything else that gets too close.)
Morays, however, do inflict a nasty bite, because, although not poisonous.... ... They have mouths big enough to swallow an orca whole.
One thing I find curious is that the so-called "largest" Moray listed in this article is a tiny, minuscule little brown thing only about fourteen feet long.  That's less than one quarter the size of thos hugee, bright green krakens that instantly come to mind when one thinks of a "Moray Eel".  The subject of this article seems to be about unremarkable little nothing-eels that no-one would ever need fear, not the gargantuan green man-eaters that hunt ship-wrecks looking for SCUBA divers or even whole deep sea exploration vehicles to consume (whole). --Þorstejnn 10:24, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reputation section -- unrealist portrayal of these gargantuan green monsters 

message: This video  from the video sharing website Metacafe is currently receiving a good deal of publicity.  Is it notable enough for the article? --♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 11:28, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It is not suited for an encyclopedia. It gives totally wrong signals. As shown in this video, they are dangerous. Moray eels are not pets to be fed. JoJan (talk) 14:36, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Video of Moray eel attack

message: Wikipedians have some jarring word choices.  Cosmo is a fine word for a specialist, but silly here.  It's a distraction and acting fancy.  Since the definition is given in the Distribution sentence, the word itself adds no value.  Moreover it's repeated in the lede and then in a one-sentence section.  72.82.52.106 (talk) 12:55, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  cosmpolitatn 

message: There is quite a bit of research out there concerning moray eel jaws, and I was thinking of creating a new subheading under "Anatomy" which would cover the shape of the jaw and how Morays have uniquely adapted jaws to cover their particular feeding styles. This is already alluded to near the beginning of the "Anatomy" section, though it could certainly be rolled into this section, and there is quite a bit more detail that I think could be added without becoming too abstruse for wikipedia. Thoughts?
EvenBadScientistsCanObserve (talk) 00:19, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: What can be added to the teeth and pharyngeal jaws topics? If you have useful things to add that don't go off-topic, just do it! Rhinopias (talk) 21:14, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jaws 

message: Can we have a brief discussion of the size of these eels? Attic Salt (talk) 01:59, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Size?