Originally published by Honolulu Civil Beat

A University of Hawaiʻi Mānoa study, funded by the Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System and the Hawaiʻi Department of Land and Natural Resources, released last week from the has found that tiger shark mating events in Hawaiʻi may directly coincide with humpback calving season. Tiger shark mating behavior has long been mostly a mystery because of their solitary nature, but scientists have now collected six years of data that supports concurrent mating off of Olowalu, Maui.Read the full article here.