Most of Hawai’i’s green sea turtles migrate to the Northwest Hawaiian Island to nest. They rely on starlight and the earth’s magnetic fields to find their way thousands of miles across the Pacific Ocean
Male humpback whales sing a complex song with identifiable phrases. the composition changes slightly over the course of the breeding season. By the next year, it’s a whole new tune!
Hawaiian cleaner wrasses are the barbers of the seas. They tidy up other fish, removing parasites, mucus, and old skin from their fins and gills. A cleaner wrasse will even climb into an eel’s mouth for a bit of dentistry!
The Hawaiian monk seal is one of the world’s rarest marine mammals. Endemic to the Hawaiian archipelago, less than 1,500 of these sweet-faced seals exist. The Hawaiian name ‘ilioholoikauaua means the “dog that runs in rough seas.”
