{"id":2197,"date":"2012-02-05T15:11:54","date_gmt":"2012-02-05T15:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/?p=2197"},"modified":"2012-02-05T15:25:39","modified_gmt":"2012-02-05T15:25:39","slug":"research-and-showbiz-planned-for-aggressive-monk-seal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/05\/research-and-showbiz-planned-for-aggressive-monk-seal\/","title":{"rendered":"Research and showbiz planned for aggressive monk seal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Media Watch, Hawaii News Now, 4 February 2012<\/h5>\n<p>Marine mammal experts once considered KE-18 to be such a dangerous Hawaiian monk seal it appeared they had no choice but to euthanize him. Six months later KE-18 has been captured and is headed for life as a research subject and aquarium attraction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/www.hawaiinewsnow.com\/global\/video\/videoplayer.js?rnd=272175;hostDomain=www.hawaiinewsnow.com;playerWidth=560;playerHeight=316;isShowIcon=true;clipId=6708288;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=overlay'><\/script><\/p>\n<p>KE-18 is known to have attacked at least 13 pups and juvenile seals at Kure and Midway Atolls. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The plan is to move KE-18 to U.C. Santa Cruz in late February. It is the same facility where another Hawaiian monk seal, KP2, lived for two years before being brought back to Hawaii and a permanent home at the Waikiki Aquarium.<\/p>\n<p>While in Santa Cruz, KE-18 will serve as a research subject. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaiinewsnow.com\/story\/16675194\/research-showbiz-planned-for-aggressive-monk-seal\">More<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaiinewsnow.com\/story\/16675194\/research-showbiz-planned-for-aggressive-monk-seal\">Research &amp; showbiz planned for aggressive monk seal<\/a>, Hawaii News Now, 4 February 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media Watch, Hawaii News Now, 4 February 2012 Marine mammal experts once considered KE-18 to be such a dangerous Hawaiian monk seal it appeared they had no choice but to euthanize him. Six months later KE-18 has been captured and is headed for life as a research subject and aquarium attraction. KE-18 is known to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/05\/research-and-showbiz-planned-for-aggressive-monk-seal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Research and showbiz planned for aggressive monk seal&#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":[56,64],"class_list":["post-2197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hawaiian-monk-seal","tag-captivity","tag-translocation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197","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=2197"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2203,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197\/revisions\/2203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}