Monk Seal Monday #14: Kawena Weaner |
August 2016 |
Edition: 1/1 NFT
Kawena (#MonkSealRH36) as a weaner back in 2016. Such a cute and innocent face, with a little sea cucumber slime matting the fur around her eye. When weaners first start foraging for food, they find they can catch these sea cucumbers (they don't really move much), but I think they also learn they aren't really nourishing enough to be worth the mess they make.
The Monk Seal Monday collection is 20 images curated from more than 10 years of photographing one of the most endangered marine mammals in the world, the Hawaiian monk seal. Only 1,400 remain and 30% of those are here today due to the direct intervention of the organ...