{"id":892824,"date":"2026-06-25T23:16:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T23:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/892824\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T23:16:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T23:16:17","slug":"first-hawaiian-monk-seal-born-on-oahus-east-side-receives-name-from-5th-grade-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/892824\/","title":{"rendered":"First Hawaiian monk seal born on Oahu\u2019s east side receives name from 5th-grade class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) &#8211; Meet the newest addition to Oahu\u2019s Hawaiian monk seals, P\u014dhaku!<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Hawaii Marine Animal Response (HMAR) announced on Thursday that the first Hawaiian monk seal pup born this season on Oahu\u2019s east side has officially been gifted a name by the 5th-grade class at Kahuku Elementary School.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The name P\u014dhaku translates to \u201cstone.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Now officially identified as RV20 with tags V20\/V24, P\u014dhaku is a male pup whose name was thoughtfully chosen by the students after learning about Hawaiian monk seals and their background.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The students who suggested P\u014dhaku wanted to honor RV20\u2019s grandmother, Rocky, as many of their classmates connected with the idea since they, too, are named after family members.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">HMAR posted to Facebook, \u201dMahalo to the students and teachers at Kahuku Elementary School for helping welcome P\u014dhaku into the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Hawaii News Now. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) &#8211; Meet the newest addition to Oahu\u2019s Hawaiian monk seals, P\u014dhaku! The Hawaii Marine Animal Response&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":892825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[27],"tags":[361911,1166,19031,48583,839,361912,2513,361913,86697,19035,194105,159,1538,361914,2086,361915,361916,16805,135006,6187,522,1164,67,132,68,3093,2058,837],"class_list":["post-892824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-air-transportation","tag-air-travel","tag-aircraft","tag-airplane","tag-airport","tag-airport-terminal","tag-architecture","tag-mount-rainier","tag-mountain","tag-plane","tag-pnw","tag-science","tag-sea","tag-seatac","tag-seattle","tag-seattle-tacoma-international-airport","tag-stratovolcano","tag-tacoma","tag-terminal","tag-transport","tag-transportation","tag-travel","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-volcano","tag-washington","tag-wildlife"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116813298820202823","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=892824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/892825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}