View movie clip of Rare Monk seal swimming on Israel’s coastline to hunt fish.
• Photographs confirm that this is the 3rd sojourn by the same endangered seal since 2010.
By Erez Erlichman
Israeli naval lookouts spotted something unusual on Monday off the coast at Rosh HaNikra – a highly endangered Mediterranean monk seal, which has become a rare sight in local waters.
Mediterranean monk seal make 3rd trip to Israel – Photo: Roei Segli
Photographs taken by experts revealed that it was not the marine mammal’s first visit to Israeli shores. The seal, which caught the navy’s attention when it crossed the maritime border between Lebanon and Israel, bore scars that showed it had been seen near Israel twice before – once in 2010 in Herzliya, and again last summer in Rosh HaNikra.
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