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Butterflyfish Pecking at a Coral Reef
Photo: An ornate butterflyfish swimming near a coral reef
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Butterflyfish are a common site near coral reefs, which they peck with their protruding snouts searching for polyps, worms, and other small invertebrates.
Photograph by Tim Laman
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