‘Make better choices’: Endangered Hawaiian monk seals keep getting eels stuck up their noses and scientists want them to stop

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This article is amazing

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“It’s just so shocking,” Claire Simeone, a veterinarian and monk seal
expert based in Hawaii, told The Washington Post on Thursday. “It’s an
animal that has another animal stuck up its nose.”

The “most plausible” theory, he said, is that monk
seal teenagers aren’t all that different from their human counterparts.
Monk seals “seem naturally attracted to getting into troublesome
situations,” Littnan said.

“It almost does feel
like one of those teenage trends that happen,” he said. “One juvenile
seal did this very stupid thing and now the others are trying to mimic
it.”

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‘Make better choices’: Endangered Hawaiian monk seals keep getting eels stuck up their noses and scientists want them to stop