It’s been a long time since I’ve written on my blog. I’ve got a great animal to add though!
Hawaiin monk seals are very lucky. They get to live in Hawaii. This means lying on the beach and hanging out in the sun. Only when seals lay in the sun, it’s not suntanning, it’s called basking.
The average monk seal is 7.5 feet long (2.3m) and they can weigh between 500 and 600 lbs.
There are three types of monk seals. Only two still exist. The Mediterranean and Hawaiin monk seals are still alive, but unfortunately the Caribbean monk seal has been extinct since the 1970′s. Hawaiin monk seals live near coral reefs which provide all kinds of different food such as eels, spiny lobster, octopus and fish.
Their Hawaiin name is llio holo lka upua which means ‘dog that runs in rough water’. My grandparents were recently in Hawaii, and they got some awesome pictures of them. They saw them basking on the beach they were swimming on. How cool!
Hunter Campbell said,
November 6, 2009 @ 1:19 am
That sounds very interesting!