Blue Hawaii

 

"Earth´s Tropical Islands" is a joint BBC-PBS documentary series in three parts about Madagascar, Borneo and Hawaii, respectively. I just watched the last episode. While mostly about the flora and the fauna of the Hawaiian island chain, we also get some insights into the geology of the place (which is quite fascinating). A little anthropology has been thrown in too, but not much. 

Featured animals include a "true bug" that lives on a chilly lava plateu and scavenges other dead insects, large fruit flies hunted by a carnivorous caterpillar, the white tern (it nests in the middle of Honolulu), the monk seal, and the world´s oldest bird specimen, the Laysan albatross "Wisdom", which may be about 70 years old. Invasive species plague the island chain, for instance an African species of chameleon. 

All three episodes of this series are worth watching, in my opinion.