{"id":2158,"date":"2012-01-16T16:07:16","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T16:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/?p=2158"},"modified":"2012-01-16T16:07:16","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T16:07:16","slug":"special-report-fight-for-survival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/2012\/01\/16\/special-report-fight-for-survival\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Report: Fight for Survival"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Media Watch, Honolulu Star Advertiser, 15 January 2012<\/h5>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2159\" title=\"monksealspecial\" src=\"http:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/monksealspecial-294x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/monksealspecial-294x300.jpg 294w, https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/monksealspecial-147x150.jpg 147w, https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/monksealspecial.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;] The current theory is that the ancient ancestors of today\u2019s Hawaiian monk seals began exploring from their original home in the Caribbean 3 million years ago through what is now Central America during a time of global climate change, said Charles Littnan, program leader for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration\u2019s Hawaiian monk seals research.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t know how long that immigration took to occur, perhaps hundreds of thousands of years,\u201d Littnan said. \u201cWe do know that quite dramatic climate change was happening, and these are tropical animals that will have to go to where they are better adapted to survive. They probably went to other areas and didn\u2019t survive. But Hawaii was this perfect match for this far-traveling seafarer.\u201d [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/media.staradvertiser.com\/documents\/monksealspecial.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Hawaiian Monk Seal, Living Fossil<\/a>, Dan Nakaso, Special Report, Honolulu Star Advertiser, 15 January 2012. [<a href=\"http:\/\/media.staradvertiser.com\/documents\/monksealspecial.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">PDF<\/a> 20.2 MB]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media Watch, Honolulu Star Advertiser, 15 January 2012 [&#8230;] The current theory is that the ancient ancestors of today\u2019s Hawaiian monk seals began exploring from their original home in the Caribbean 3 million years ago through what is now Central America during a time of global climate change, said Charles Littnan, program leader for the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/2012\/01\/16\/special-report-fight-for-survival\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Special Report: Fight for Survival&#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":[6],"tags":[30,37],"class_list":["post-2158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hawaiian-monk-seal","tag-main-hawaiian-islands","tag-papahanaumokuakea-marine-national-monument"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158","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=2158"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2166,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158\/revisions\/2166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}