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Ching has written around twenty books, among them are: [2] Honu and Hina: A Story of Coexistence; How Fo Surf Bettah (2010) The Tale of Rabbit Island (2001) Sea Turtles of Hawaiʻi (2001) The Story of Hina (1998) Endangered Animals of Hawaiʻi (1995) The Hawaiian Monk Seal (1994) The Beautiful Birds of Hawaii (1992) Native Animals of Hawaiʻi ...
The Hawaiian monk seal is one of two extant monk seal species; the other is the Mediterranean monk seal. A third species, the Caribbean monk seal, is extinct. [3] The Hawaiian monk seal is the only seal native to Hawaii, and, along with the Hawaiian hoary bat, is one of only two mammals endemic to the islands. [4]
In 2017, Littnan published Bio-Ecology, Threats and Conservation, [11] a chapter in the book Tropical Pinnipeds, where he discussed regulatory requirements for monk seal conservation, the key sources of seal disease in the Hawaiian Archipelago, and managers' and scientists' prior conservation efforts to eliminate these threats and guarantee the ...
Hawaiian monk seals grow to be 6-7 feet long, weigh 400-600 pounds, and can live more than 30 years. Males and females are generally the same size — the only way to tell them apart is to look at ...
Monk seals are earless seals of the tribe Monachini.They are the only earless seals found in tropical climates. The two genera of monk seals, Monachus and Neomonachus, comprise three species: the Mediterranean monk seal, Monachus monachus; the Hawaiian monk seal, Neomonachus schauinslandi; and the Caribbean monk seal, Neomonachus tropicalis, which became extinct in the 20th century.
COURTESY PHOTO Despite guidelines to keep a recommended 50 feet from resting seals and 150 feet from mom and seal pups, surfers walked past resting Hawaiian monk seals on the beach in Waikiki. 1 / ...
Two Hawaii residents were fined $20,000 for their alleged roles in the fatal mauling of a female Hawaiian monk seal pup by unleashed dogs, U.S. officials said Thursday. Hawaiian monk seals are a ...
Neomonachus is a genus of earless seals, within the family Phocidae.It contains two species: the endangered Hawaiian monk seal, and the extinct Caribbean monk seal.Prior to 2014, all three species of monk seals were placed in the genus Monachus, but that was found to be paraphyletic.