Ghost of a monk seal: has the Caribbean monk seal barked its final good-bye? (wildlife biologists fear that the seal is extinct; the last sighting of living monk seal was in 1952)(Brief Article)

Animals | November 1, 1997 | Copyright

Has the Caribbean monk seal barked it final good-bye?

The Caribbean monk seal once reigned throughout many of the Antilles, the Bahamas, and the Florida Keys. It was among the first mammals Christopher Columbus saw on his second voyage to the New World in 1494, and his journals contain the first mention of the seal in Western literature. The sailors following Columbus, especially the Spaniards who were invading the Caribbean in the 1600s, hunted the seals in great numbers. Yet even in the early 1700s, a traveler wrote, "Bahama Islands are filled with seals; ...

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