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  • 'Make better choices': Endangered monk seals keep getting two-foot-long eels stuck up their noses

    12/07/2018 10:06:02 AM PST · by Loyalist · 28 replies
    National Post ^ | December 7, 2018 | Allyson Chiu, Washington Post
    A relaxed-looking juvenile Hawaiian monk seal lounges near a sandy white beach on some green foliage. Its eyes are half-closed and it has a serene expression on its face. But the seal’s calm demeanor is surprising. Why? Well, there’s a long, black-and-white eel dangling from its right nostril. “It’s just so shocking,” Claire Simeone, a veterinarian and monk seal expert based in Hawaii, told The Washington Post on Thursday. “It’s an animal that has another animal stuck up its nose.” Simeone wasn’t the only person stunned by the photo of the seal and its unusual facial ornament that was shared...