The Burning Monk

The Monk Parakeet in New York

Virus Threats to Monk Seals

There were no suitable rehabilitation facilities in Greece at that time, and so the policy was still to bring monk seals to the Netherlands for treatment. That's basically against our rules today. The 1988 morbillivirus outbreak in the North Sea underlined the increased risks involved in moving animals in this way. As a result, it was decided that we should offer training and technical expertis...

Some Notes on the Hawaiian Monk Seal

UP TO 1958 the collections of the British Museum ( N atural History ) possessed nei ther skeletal material nor skin of the Hawaiian or Laysan monk seal, Monachus schauinslalldi Matschie 1905 . Indeed the only remains of this animal in Europe until now have been those brought back by Dr. Schauinsland, amongst which was the skull of the seal later named after him by Matschie (Marschie, 1905) . Th...

Thermoregulatory Behavior of the Hawaiian Monk Seal (

The behavior of Hawaiian monk seals at French Frigate Shoals was studied in order to obtain information on their adaptation to a tropical climate. The seals were unable to remain on the dry beach platform during the day except during very high winds, extensive cloud cover, or rain. The seals characteristically moved down to wet sand on the beach slope during the day and returned to the beach pl...

The Cilician Monk Seal Colony Is Growing

The first seal colony size assessment study on the Cilician coast of Turkey, carried out by the Middle East Technical University, indicated a presence of 4 adult males, 6 adult females and 2 juveniles in 1996. This figure was very promising for an area that had previously been represented by a question mark on the Mediterranean monk seal distribution maps of scientific documents. In 2001, with ...