{"id":217,"date":"2009-05-24T11:44:34","date_gmt":"2009-05-24T10:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/?p=217"},"modified":"2009-05-26T11:01:02","modified_gmt":"2009-05-26T10:01:02","slug":"foul-play-blamed-for-kauai-monk-seal-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/24\/foul-play-blamed-for-kauai-monk-seal-death\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Foul play&#8217; blamed for Kauai monk seal death"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Press Watch \u2013\u00a0 The Honolulu Advertiser, <span class=\"hon_article_timestamp\">May 23, 2009<\/span><\/h5>\n<h4>Pregnant female called &#8216;important part of the breeding community&#8217;<\/h4>\n<p>A Hawaiian monk seal killed Thursday on Kaua&#8217;i&#8217;s north shore was a pregnant female who had previously given birth to four pups, according to NOAA Fisheries.<\/p>\n<p>Witness accounts suggest the 600-pound monk seal, known to NOAA researchers as RK06, was shot to death, but federal officials would say only that the endangered marine mammal died as a result of &#8220;foul play.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A necropsy on the monk seal was conducted yesterday, and NOAA Fisheries spokeswoman Wende Goo said no further details were being released because the killing is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Foul play&#8221; by humans also is blamed for the death of a 4-year-old male monk seal found dead on a Kaua&#8217;i beach April 19, according to Goo.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t have enough information to link the two,&#8221; she said. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.honoluluadvertiser.com\/article\/20090523\/NEWS14\/905230318\/-1\/NEWS14\">Full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Watch \u2013\u00a0 The Honolulu Advertiser, May 23, 2009 Pregnant female called &#8216;important part of the breeding community&#8217; A Hawaiian monk seal killed Thursday on Kaua&#8217;i&#8217;s north shore was a pregnant female who had previously given birth to four pups, according to NOAA Fisheries. Witness accounts suggest the 600-pound monk seal, known to NOAA researchers &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/24\/foul-play-blamed-for-kauai-monk-seal-death\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8216;Foul play&#8217; blamed for Kauai monk seal death&#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":[12,25],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hawaiian-monk-seal","tag-necropsy","tag-direct-killing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","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=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}