Lionfish are skilled hunters, using specialized bilateral swim bladder muscles to provide exquisite control of location in the water column, allowing the fish to alter its center of gravity to better attack prey.[5] The lionfish then spreads its large pectoral fins and swallows its prey in a single motion.[9] They blow jets of water while approaching prey, apparently to disorient them. (Emirates Park Zoo, Samha, Abu Dhabi, Jan. 2015)