How to Use monk seal in a Sentence

monk seal

noun
  • The first two Hawaiian monk seals pups of 2018 have been born.
    Fox News, 14 Mar. 2018
  • On East, a molting monk seal smelled worse than sweaty, pungent gym socks.
    Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • The crew removed line from a monk seal on the expedition’s first day.
    Caleb Jones, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Apr. 2021
  • The crew removed line from a monk seal on the expedition's first day.
    Caleb Jones, Star Tribune, 30 Apr. 2021
  • The mother monk seal checked on her pup by barking as the newborn flapped its flippers.
    Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2022
  • About half can be found in Greek waters, where an island or inlet might be home to just a few monk seals.
    Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2023
  • The birth of a Hawaiian monk seal was recently captured on camera in Oahu.
    Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com, 20 Apr. 2022
  • And in another video from Hawaii this week, a woman was attacked by a monk seal while out swimming.
    CNN, 30 July 2022
  • In tiny Hana, a town on eastern Maui, a cinder cone shields a red-sand beach where nudists and endangered monk seals bake idly in the sun.
    Sarah Rose, Travel + Leisure, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The killing of a monk seal can lead to a civil penalty or criminal conviction.
    Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 7 June 2023
  • Wildlife officials in Hawaii say a monk seal has been found dead in Oahu - the second seal death reported on the island in three months.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 15 June 2023
  • Just two species have not—southern resident killer whales, and Hawaiian monk seals.
    Justin Rohrlich, Quartz, 7 Aug. 2019
  • Images of a Hawaiian monk seal being born on an Oahu beach have been captured on camera.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2022
  • When the water’s calmer, parents and kids can stroll the shoreline and scan the surf for slumbering green sea turtles or Hawaiian monk seals.
    Matt Villano, Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
  • Lehua's death comes just months after another female monk seal was found dead on an area beach.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 15 June 2023
  • The study found 18% of the posts showed a monk seal responding to some type of disturbance by looking, moving away, or mouthing or barking.
    USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2019
  • On the first day of the mission, the expedition rescued a four-year-old female Hawaiian monk seal from a fishing net wrapped around her neck.
    Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Hawaii is blessed with many beautiful creatures, some of which are impossible to spot anywhere else in the world, like the Hawaiian monk seal.
    Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2022
  • The baby monk seal is the 14th birthed by mother Right Spot and her first on Oahu, having typically given birth on the island of Molokai, where she was born.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Kostis, a Mediterranean monk seal, was a playful creature, beloved by residents of and visitors to the Greek island of Alonissos.
    Washington Post, 24 July 2021
  • In July, one woman was injured while swimming off the shore of Hawaii when a mother monk seal attacked her while defending her pup.
    Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Spirits were high in late January when rescuers released Malama the Hawaiian monk seal back into the ocean.
    Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 8 June 2023
  • The harassment of wildlife like dolphins, turtles and Hawaiian monk seals is a recurring problem.
    Audrey McAvoy, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Apr. 2023
  • An endangered monk seal pup found dead on the North Shore of the Hawaiian island of Oahu last month was most likely killed in a dog attack, federal officials said.
    Dennis Romero, NBC News, 26 July 2023
  • The Guam flycatcher, the Caribbean monk seal, and the blackfin cisco are now completely extinct from our planet.
    Josh Linkner, Detroit Free Press, 1 Apr. 2018
  • An Alabama man was fined $1,500 for touching a Hawaiian monk seal as well as harassing a sea turtle on Kauai and then posting the videos on social media.
    Fox News, 27 Aug. 2018
  • Some historians have postulated that the monster could have been a Mediterranean monk seal.
    Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 2 June 2023
  • Critically endangered Hawaiian monk seals give birth on the shores.
    Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • The site also has yielded nearly 1 ton of animal bone, including the remains of extinct Caribbean monk seals and whales.
    Bydavid Malakoff, science.org, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Separately, tourist Alex Magala posted an Instagram video of his encounter with a monk seal from his trip, which appears to have been in May of this year.
    Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 2 Aug. 2021

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