[Westlander]

[Chickensoup]

Did you eat one? I didn’t eat one...how about you?

[Crazieman]

zzzz

Drill for oil already

[CougarGA7]

[FlingWingFlyer]

The problem I had with the Caribbean monk seals was that it always took more than one to make a decent meal.

[Sacajaweau]

Because you can’t find one, it doesn’t mean they don’t exist.

[andyandval]

the species is officially extinct and the only seal to vanish due to human causes.

[Redcloak]

Does this mean that we can drill now?

[Dick Vomer]

[Dick Vomer]

[Dog Gone]

the only seal to vanish due to human causes.

What did I do to get rid of a seal I never heard of much less saw?

[Dog Gone]

Oh wait, as I read deep into the story, even though one hasn’t been seen since 1952, global warming is to blame.

[TLI]

the species is officially extinct and the only seal to vanish due to human causes.

The Hawaiian population is declining at a rate of about four percent per year, with challenges "such as lack of food sources for young seals (natural cause), entanglement in marine debris, (quite rare) predation by sharks (natural cause), and loss of haul-out and pupping beaches due to erosion (natural cause)," the service said.

So the Hawaiian monk seal population is shrinking mostly due to natural causes but the Carribean monk seal "vanished due to human causes" having last been seen in 1952.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

After five years of futile efforts.......

And exactly how much taxpayers money was wasted on this five year futile effort?

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Isn’t government grand?....they take your money and get futile with it. If these f’ing jackasses had to account to someone for all the money they throw away, they would all be in prison!!

[elfman2]

Caribbean Monk Seal - (Monachus tropicalis)
Status
The Caribbean monk seal was formally declared extinct in the 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. The last reported sighting in 1952 was from Seranilla Bank between Jamaica and Honduras, where a small colony was known to have lived. The Caribbean monk seal was documented as being easily approachable and not aggressive and they were easily killed during directed hunts in the 17th and 18th centuries. It is also known that sailors, whalers, and fishers opportunistically killed the seals they encountered. As well, Caribbean monk seals were killed by museum collectors and displayed in zoos. All monk seal species appear to be sensitive to disturbance, and early habitat exclusion by humans throughout their range may have exacerbated their decline. In response to recent unconfirmed Caribbean monk seal sightings in areas within their historical range, surveys have been carried out as late as 1993.

[SampleMan]

Perhaps if they hadn’t been monks?

[longtermmemmory]

if we were allowed to hunt and eat them they might have lived.

(so has anyone thought of farm raising whales as a fuel source?)

[FlingWingFlyer]

The Ocean Conservancy said some of the threats, especially erosion and debris, are tied to the El Nino weather pattern and rising sea levels, which in turn is tied to global warming.

When did the dorks "tie" El Nino to "global warming?" I missed that! El Nino was around LONG before the Goracle and his comrades invented "global warming."

[MaxMax]

I wasn’t even born then, so how is this my fault?

[Bommer]

The Caribbean monk seal was formally declared extinct in the 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. The last reported sighting in 1952 was from Seranilla Bank between Jamaica and Honduras, where a small colony was known to have lived.

So the US government is either 56 years late or 12 years late! Today the Caribbean Seal, tomorrow THE POLAR BEAR! Only the strong survive baby! Drill em all and let Exxon sort out the rest!