Blacktip reef shark (Carcharhinus melanopterus) feeding on a fish carcass. In the background are a school of lowfin drummers (Kyphosus vaigiensis). Ph

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Blacktip reef shark (Carcharhinus melanopterus) feeding on a fish carcass. In the background are a school of lowfin drummers (Kyphosus vaigiensis). Photographed at Vaavu Atoll, in the Maldives, an island nation in the Indian Ocean.

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