#maybe they'll introduce Hawaiian seals in the region to fill that niche and as part of the species conservation efforts
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bywandandsword · 7 months ago
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Y'all I recently learned that the Gulf of Mexico used to have a native seal, but they went extinct in the the 1960s, partially due to hunting and over hunting their food sources. They were called Caribbean Monk seals and are closely related to the Hawaiian Monk seal and the Mediterranean Monk seal, both of which are endangered
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(Pictured: a Hawaiian monk seal)
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