{"id":3447,"date":"2016-07-08T14:36:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T14:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/?p=3447"},"modified":"2020-04-21T10:20:16","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T10:20:16","slug":"the-stomach-content-of-a-mediterranean-monk-seal-monachus-monachus-finding-of-green-turtle-chelonia-mydas-remains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/2016\/07\/08\/the-stomach-content-of-a-mediterranean-monk-seal-monachus-monachus-finding-of-green-turtle-chelonia-mydas-remains\/","title":{"rendered":"The stomach content of a Mediterranean Monk Seal (Monachus monachus): finding of Green Turtle (Chelonia mydas) remains"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Recent Publications<\/h5>\n<p class=\"recent\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1884\" src=\"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/closed_access_grey-e1408974904248.png\" alt=\"Non-open access journals\" width=\"34\" height=\"54\"\/><strong>Tonay, A.M., E. Danyer, A. Dede, B. \u00d6zt\u00fcrk and A.A. \u00d6zt\u00fcrk<\/strong>. 2016. The stomach content of a Mediterranean Monk Seal (<em>Monachus monachus<\/em>): finding of Green Turtle (<em>Chelonia mydas<\/em>) remains. Zoology in the Middle East. <a href=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/09397140.2016.1202947\">http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/09397140.2016.1202947<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><br \/>\nThe stomach contents of an adult Mediterranean Monk Seal (<em>Monachus monachus<\/em>) found stranded on the Turkish eastern Mediterranean coast near Antalya in May 2013 were analysed. In total, 69 individual food items were counted and nine taxa were identified to species or family level. Of the identified taxa, Sparidae was the most highly represented family of prey fish, and one cephalopod species, <em>Octopus vulgaris<\/em>, was found. <em>Ariosoma balearicum<\/em> and <em>Argyrosomus regius<\/em> were encountered for the first time in the diet of a Monk Seal in the Mediterranean. Several body parts (three heads, six forelimbs, neck bones and fractured upper forelimb bones) of Green Turtles (<em>Chelonia mydas<\/em>) were also identified, which is the first record of this species in the Monk Seal\u2019s diet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent Publications Tonay, A.M., E. Danyer, A. Dede, B. \u00d6zt\u00fcrk and A.A. \u00d6zt\u00fcrk. 2016. The stomach content of a Mediterranean Monk Seal (Monachus monachus): finding of Green Turtle (Chelonia mydas) remains. Zoology in the Middle East. http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/09397140.2016.1202947 Abstract The stomach contents of an adult Mediterranean Monk Seal (Monachus monachus) found stranded on the Turkish eastern &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/2016\/07\/08\/the-stomach-content-of-a-mediterranean-monk-seal-monachus-monachus-finding-of-green-turtle-chelonia-mydas-remains\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The stomach content of a Mediterranean Monk Seal (Monachus monachus): finding of Green Turtle (Chelonia mydas) remains&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,62],"tags":[44,58],"class_list":["post-3447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-med-monk-seal","category-recent-publications-2","tag-research","tag-recent-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3447"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4389,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447\/revisions\/4389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}