Caribbean Monk Seal

The Caribbean Monk Seal The caribbean monk seal, West Indian seal or sea wolf, was a species of seal native to the Caribbean and is now believed to be extinct. The caribbean monk seals were first discovered during Columbus’s second voyage in 1494, when eight seals were killed for meat. It is part of the Animalia kingdom and its Binomial name is Neomonachus Tropicalis. Also is phylum is chordata. Historically, they had a widespread range throughout the Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and West Atlantic Ocean. Their distribution also included the east coast of Central America and north coast of South America. In the Caribbean, they were known to occur in the Greater and Lesser Antilles, Cuba, Jamaica, and other local waters. There…

Based in Hanapepe Town, it was constructed in the early 1900s and looks like something out of Indiana Jones. Afterward, visitors can check out the Art Walk that is hosted every Friday evening in Hanapepe Town. For the true adventure lover, check out the Maniniholo Dry Cave or the three wet caves in the Haena State park. The drive cave is easy to explore if you have a flashlight. Meanwhile, the Maniniholo, Waikapalae and Waikanaloa Wet Caves are are beautiful for photographs. Filled with water…

There are three hundred species of birds, in which the Audubon's Crested Carcara, Piping Plover, Roseate Tern, and Red Knot are endangered. More than half of the life on Dry Tortugas consists of marine life. The American Crocodile, West Indian Manatee, Caribbean Monk Seal, Finback Whale, Humpback Whale, Right Whale and the famous, Loggerhead, Hawksbill, Green Sea, Kemp's Ridley, and Leatherback Sea turtles are all endangered species. Beneath the Dry Tortugas islands, lies some of North America's…

it caused the rat and feral dog population rose up and took the spot of the vulture. Because of that numerous transmissible diseases like rabies, anthrax and plague, resulting in health costs around 34 billion dollars”(Dasgupta, Mongabay). We need to protect these species. We need to protect the species all around the world. We lost some great and very interesting. Some of the species we have lost are like the Mammoth, the dodo bird, saber tooth tiger and many more and those aren’t even the…

money from merchants. The population went from many millions to a few hundred thousand. Today, elephants are protected, but poachers still find ways to kill them for their tusks ("How Animals Become Extinct.", www.ducksters.com). Animals all over the world are become extinct due to hunting. West African Black Rhinoceros are extinct due to poaching and demand for rhino horns. The Pyrenean Ibex population, which live in southern France, was severely thinned by hunting. Passenger Pigeons had 3…