| Watching the whales at play. The humpbacks live in Maui’s water from mid-December to mid-May, migrating 3,000 to 4,000 miles from their summer home in Alaska. They eat tons of krill and small fish in Alaska, then don’t eat again until they return. |  |
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While fasting in Hawaiian waters, they give birth and nurse their young. They’re often seen in threes—mother, calf, and male escort, who is usually not the calf’s father, but hopes to sire the cow’s next calf. |
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