Anglerfish, for example, will scare the heck out of anyone — its long and crooked teeth along with a growth on its head that lures the prey is enough to instill fear even in the bravest.
Cleopatra was sailing up the River Cydnus in a barge, its sails purple, its rowers urging it in with silver oars to the sound of the flute blended with pipes and lute.
He learned sword-fighting and riding, swimming and diving, how to shoot with the bow and play on the recorder and the theorbo, how to hunt the stag and cut him up when he was dead.
Like a built in fishing rod, it glows with the help of a bunch of bioluminescent bacteria and lures the anglerfish's prey in close enough for them to have a little lunch.