DB Post Friday July 4th

Kerby,Hoku,Kolohe,RB08,RIP,Buster,M38,R301@RI, 7-4-08
I hope all of you are having a joyous 4th. I spent the day with 8 of my favorite associates , all of whom made up the Rabbit Island cast for today. Kerby and R301 escaped all the chaos by have the sense to be at the right end of the island. They could not escape however and there were late in the day interactions for them too.

The action was all down at the left end of the island, and involved Hoku, Kolohe, RIP,Buster, M38 and RB08. Kolohe was at the left end all day , but I found Hoku at the right end of the beach at RRB (Rocky Right Beach) this morning. He has now covered the beach front tip to tip, and it's only his 2nd day in the neighborhood. He ultimately came back to the left end and he and Kolohe interacted all day. They were joine thru the day by two adult males, RIP and M38, plus a subadult male, Buster, and a juvenile female, RB08. Through the day, every single possible combination of interactions possible, occurred between this cast of characters. RIP and M38 as the adult males, had a few issues and there were several eyeball to eyeball confrontation, but all were basically all bark and no bite. Some of the others found themselves trapped in the middle from time to time, but everybody survived the day, and the two new guys had lots of interactions with their fellow RI cast.

Two pieces of new information came from today's observations. Hoku takes no guff from any Monk Seal. Despite his weaner status he won't back down, and has real guts. The other piece of info involves what appears to be early weaning issues with Kolohe. He was weaned a bit early at 39 days, and I observed him interacting with all these animals, trying to suckle , multiple times. Hopefully, he'll get over that. Time will tell. Aloha, DB