Wally is in senior class at reef school. He is 11 years old. He has had a tough childhood. Life at home has been quite hard for Wally. He is generally a good kid but he is lacking in confidence cause his father would punish him harshly.

Wally thinks that nobody likes him, so he pretends to be tough in order to make people scared of him so he himself does get bullied.

He takes the younger kids belongings and hides them as a game. Because no-one will play with him, he forces them into his little games.

He really is very scared himself and all he wants is friends to play with.

Wally is a Napoleon Maori wrasse, and is so named because of the patterned lines around his eyes, similar to that of traditional facial tattoos once worn by New Zealand Maori.

They are known as Humphead maori wrasse (Cheilinus undulatus) are also known as humphead wrasse, maori wrasse, Napoleon wrasse, giant wrasse, humphead parrot fish and the double-headed wrasse.

These fish are one of the largest fish in the ocean, reaching up to 2.3 metres in length and weighing up to 190 kilograms.

Napoleon Maori wrasses may live to be over 30 years of age. Most Napoleon Maori wrasses start life as females and change sex to become males. The large hump on the head develops in the adult wrasses.

New research suggests that adult males and females look identical. Adult females develope the hump and may look exactly the same

Most live as solitary animals, except around breeding time, which is every full moon. However, Napoleon Maori wrasses often get used to divers. These wrasse are ‘protogynous hermaphrodites’ which means they start their adult life as females and change to become males when they are older.

Little is known about this or how it happens but it is believed that not all females become males and not all males started as females.Humphead maori wrasse are very wary of other animals in the wild, but in marine parks where fish are protected they often become tame and can be touched by divers.

The Napoleon Maori wrasse eats molluscs, fishes, sea urchins, crustaceans (crabs) and other invertebrates like shellfish.They have bones near the throat (pharyngeal bones) that act as a second set of teeth that crush, grind and assist in consuming their food

This species occurs in inshore waters and on coral reefs in tropical waters of the Indo-West and Central Pacific. Larger individuals are usually seen on steep outer reef slopes at depths between 10m and 100m.In Australia it is known from the offshore reefs of north-western Western Australia and the entire length of the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland .

Moari Wrasse are often territorial and generally live in a crevice or cave in a lagoon.
The reef provides not only shelter but a food source. Humphead maori wrasse mainly eat during the day and can be seen feasting on shellfish, fish, starfish, sea urchins and crabs.