Triggerfish (humuhumunukunukuapua'a) facts: just try saying their name | Animal Fact Files

On this episode of Animal Fact Files discover some colorful fish with an even more colorful name!

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Image and Video Credits:
JD -    • Picasso Trigger Fish  ;    • Baby Picasso Trigger Fish With Mom  ;    • Black Trigger Fish  ;    • Trigger Fish and a Puffer Fish  ;    • Orange-Lined Trigger Fish  
Bruce Carlson -    • Triggerfish destroys coral  
Eric Vernon -    • Blue Throat Trigger Spawning  
BubblyDiver -    • Triggerfish on the wreck of the Royal...  
Notdunroamin -    • Notdunroamin: Titan Triggerfish aggre...  


Rickard Zerpe - https://www.flickr.com/photos/krokodi... https://www.flickr.com/photos/krokodi...
zsispeo - https://www.flickr.com/photos/zsispeo...
Bernard Spragg. NZ - https://www.flickr.com/photos/volvob1...
Brian Gratwicke - https://www.flickr.com/photos/briangr...


Kora27 - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Amada44 - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Pyle, R. L.; Earle, J. L. - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...


Research Credits:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/an...
https://science.jrank.org/pages/6960/...
https://www.fishbase.in/summary/Famil...
http://www.gma.org/fogm/Balistidae.htm
   • How to say humuhumunukunukuāpuaʻa  
https://www.poison.org/articles/2009-...
https://www.iamat.org/country/bahamas...
https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/...
http://jeb.biologists.org/content/221...
http://jeb.biologists.org/content/220...
https://books.google.com/books?id=-e3...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/a...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/a...
http://scientiamarina.revistas.csic.e...
https://www.aces.edu/blog/topics/sea-...
https://oceana.org/marine-life/ocean-...
https://www.encyclopedia.com/plants-a...