Calohki is a friendly puffin who helps the lost Watership Down rabbits in the Big Water.
Biography[]
The Great Water[]
Hazel and his group are lost at sea looking for Kehaar and come across a group of puffins. Hazel attempts to ask one for help but Calohki seems uninterested and untrustful in the rabbits. Pipkin, a natural, easygoing friend-maker attempts to speak in a broken-accent to him sitting on a nest and asks for help. He happily responds that his name is Calohki and he is minding his nest but seemed confused when he asked him if he knew Kehaar. Soon after the interaction, a flock of gulls start attacking the puffins and Calohki squawks at them until they leave him alone.
Later at dawn, Katerina and her friend agree to bully some puffins. Kehaar asks them why they want to hurt the puffins even though they have done nothing wrong but Katerina retorts that they used to love bullying them together. Kehaar tells her that he learned that it's better to get along with the neighboring birds but she is distraught that he isn't the same, fun Kehaar that she once knew.
The gulls start attacking the puffins and Kehaar angrily defends the two gulls and shoos them off. He apologizes to the flock and states rabbits are better than gulls. Calohki tells him that he is familiar with Hazel's group and understands that not all gulls are the same. He tells Kehaar that they are down by the beach and he knows they are in trouble due to an upcoming tidal wave, Kehaar thanks his new friend and looks for the rabbits.
Kehaar eventually finds Hazel and the others and they need to climb a steep ledge, he begs the gulls for help but they kept sleeping and refused to help. He realized that Katerina was a horrible friend to him this entire time and asked the puffins for help. Calohki questions why his gull friends wouldn't help and he replies that gulls are gulls. The flock agrees to help them by gathering as many items they can as the rabbits would mix it with mud to support a lift.
The rabbits make it out of the steep ledge and thank the flock for saving them. The puffins thank them in return by giving them heaps of fish (despite the fact rabbits don't eat fish) but Pipkin pops one in his mouth to be polite. The flock says their goodbyes and Kehaar, as the gull he is, eats the fish.
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