{"id":1999,"date":"2011-11-06T16:41:37","date_gmt":"2011-11-06T16:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/?p=1999"},"modified":"2011-11-09T16:31:19","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T16:31:19","slug":"new-monk-seal-sightings-in-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/2011\/11\/06\/new-monk-seal-sightings-in-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"New monk seal sightings in Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>\u2014 Luigi Guarrera \u2013 Gruppo Foca Monaca Italia<\/h5>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2001\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2001\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2001\" title=\"P6160279-HTopel-247_01\" src=\"http:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/P6160279-Henryk-Topel-247_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/P6160279-Henryk-Topel-247_01.jpg 300w, https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/P6160279-Henryk-Topel-247_01-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2001\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sighting at Giglio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>GFM \u2013 Gruppo Foca Monaca Italia reports two recent, confirmed monk seal sightings along the Italian coasts.<\/p>\n<p>The first one took place in July in the same area where in 2002 a young monk seal was observed for a considerable time and many photos taken, Metaponto, in southern Italy (Basilicata). Some tourists from Trento saw, not far from the shore, and for about an hour, a couple of adult\u00a0 seals with a \u201cplaying attitude\u201d (probably courtship). Unfortunately they did not have any camera or mobile with camera, but \u2014 when interviewed \u2014 gave very detailed information about the sighting.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A second sighting \u2014 following on from <a href=\"http:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/mguard24\/2423infocu.htm\" target=\"_blank\">photos taken in 2009<\/a> almost in the same area \u2014 took place in September in the island of Giglio, within the National Park of Tuscan Archipelago. GFM was contacted by a person who declared that he was fishing from a boat at the sighting moment, and whose attention was drawn by some bathers on land pointing out the presence of a \u201cstrange fish\u201d.\u00a0 At a meeting with GFM experts he brought also a photo he had taken, apparently showing a young seal.\u00a0 As TMG readers may remember, <a href=\"http:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/mguard26\/2615mednew.htm\" target=\"_blank\">other confirmed sightings took place in 2010<\/a> in the island of Elba and, a bit more north, near Portofino.<\/p>\n<p>During 2011, monk seals were also sighted in the island of Marettimo (Sicily), where GFM has enjoyed a good relationship with local fishermen and the staff of the Egadi Islands Marine Regional Park since 2009.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2014 Luigi Guarrera \u2013 Gruppo Foca Monaca Italia GFM \u2013 Gruppo Foca Monaca Italia reports two recent, confirmed monk seal sightings along the Italian coasts. The first one took place in July in the same area where in 2002 a young monk seal was observed for a considerable time and many photos taken, Metaponto, in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/2011\/11\/06\/new-monk-seal-sightings-in-italy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New monk seal sightings in Italy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1,28],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-1999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mediterranean-news","category-med-monk-seal","category-italy","tag-sightings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1999"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2007,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999\/revisions\/2007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}