Monk seal laying on the sand

A juvenile Hawaiian monk seal / ilioholokauaua (Neomonachus schauinslandi) resting on a beach on Tern Island, French Frigate Shoals in Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument.

 

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Photo by: Mark Sullivan, NOAA Fisheries Hawaiian Monk Seal Research Program, 2014

Photo collected under NMFS Research Permit #16632

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