{"id":3186,"date":"2015-04-07T08:45:37","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T08:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/?p=3186"},"modified":"2018-09-15T11:07:43","modified_gmt":"2018-09-15T11:07:43","slug":"pregnant-monk-seal-found-dead-in-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/2015\/04\/07\/pregnant-monk-seal-found-dead-in-lebanon\/","title":{"rendered":"Pregnant monk seal found dead in Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Monk-seal-death-Lebanon-2015.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3189\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-cJGxihFg\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3189\" src=\"http:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Monk-seal-death-Lebanon-2015-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Monk-seal-death-Lebanon-2015-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Monk-seal-death-Lebanon-2015-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Monk-seal-death-Lebanon-2015-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Monk-seal-death-Lebanon-2015.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/a>The death of a pregnant Mediterranean monk seal has been reported in Beirut near the &#8220;Cave of seals&#8221; at Raouche Beach. The discovery is thought to have taken place last week, on 31 March 2015. A locally performed necropsy did not reveal any signs of foul play, though it is not yet known how comprehensive the procedure was.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being considered extinct in Lebanon since the 1950s, rare sporadic sightings in more recent years have raised hopes of the monk seal&#8217;s return.<\/p>\n<p>Further information is available on Lebanon&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/greenarea.me\/en\/64639\/the-monk-seal-abandons-the-raouche-cave-forever\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Green Area <\/a>website.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death of a pregnant Mediterranean monk seal has been reported in Beirut near the &#8220;Cave of seals&#8221; at Raouche Beach. The discovery is thought to have taken place last week, on 31 March 2015. A locally performed necropsy did not reveal any signs of foul play, though it is not yet known how comprehensive &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/2015\/04\/07\/pregnant-monk-seal-found-dead-in-lebanon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pregnant monk seal found dead in Lebanon&#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":[1,49],"tags":[69],"class_list":["post-3186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-med-monk-seal","category-lebanon","tag-mortality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3186","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=3186"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4057,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3186\/revisions\/4057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}