Wrasses versus Damselfish

PacificklausPacificklaus Registered Users Posts: 118 Major grins
edited June 24, 2013 in Wildlife
Last week cruel fate forced me to scuba dive in Oahu, HI. I got quite lucky underwater-photography-wise. One thing my dive buddy Russell and I saw was the struggle by the Hawaiian Sergeant, a damselfish, to protect its eggs, and the efforts by wrasses and butterflyfish to eat them. Quite a spectacle (a short essay about it is here)!

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Then, we were incredibly lucky to see Hawaiian monk seals, on two occasions. There are only ~1100 individuals left of this marine mammal:

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