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Whatever Happened to the Caribbean Monk Seal, Last Seen in the 1950s?

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Amaziah George
Nov 18, 2020
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St. Thomas — Do you remember the Caribbean Monk Seal? Do you know what they are, or more accurately, what they were? Could you imagine seeing a seal lying on the beaches of Caribbean islands just as the locals and millions of tourists do? How would you feel knowing that we, humans, played a major part in their extinction? These wonders of the water were…

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