Cat Disease Threatens Endangered Monk Seals
Tuesday, December 7, 2010 - 13:03
in Earth & Climate
Hoku endured some rough days before he died last spring. Three dogs chased him off one of his resting beaches, and he battled a minor tsunami that left him wedged between a pair of boulders in a lava field far from shore.Observers noticed him looking thin in the few months before fishermen found him dead on a beach near the east Kaua`i town of Kapa`a. [More]