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A quick tour of humu-related things 

TV coverage of a lively 1984 street event where the candidates 

campaign for votes!

The Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, California, has a very informative article in their website's Online Learning Center

There is another triggerfish that has the same 

LO-O-O-ONG Hawaiian name – but it is NOT the 

Hawaii State Fish!  It is the lagoon triggerfish, also 

called the Picasso triggerfish.

Reef triggerfish

Wedge-tail triggerfish

Lagoon triggerfish

Picasso triggerfish

This fun and goofy song, from the stage show "High School Musical II," is not really about the fish, but rather about a girl who is chasing a boy with that nickname

This classic song, written in 1933, is how many non-Hawaiians first heard the name.  It wasn't actually about the fish, but everyone knew that last overflowing line of the song!

Children on the beach learning about their state fish

 Bhawna Mundotia's original video from which the clips in this song video were taken

This one, from Gary Franks, follows a busy little fish as he/she pokes around for tasty goodies in the sand

HAWAII STATE FISH

Rhinecanthus rectangulus

This charming episode of "Octonauts" (Season 1, Episode 10) tells the story of a school of humus who get stuck in the plumbing of the Octopod

Humu camp song by Rick Maxson

Humu song by the popular children's artist Rick Charette

Reef triggerfish 

Wedge-tail triggerfish 

Humu song by John Archambault and David Plummer on their album "Wonder the Ocean"

1934 film debut

Don Ho 

Leon Redbone and Ringo Starr

Kaleo Naea with hula dancers

Must see!

A humu learns that it is better to be yourself, in your true colors, than to try to be like someone else