Endangered Hawaiian Monk Seal Crashes Late Night Manta Ray Party

In a warm, coastal waters of Kona, Hawaii, divers versed with lights set out each night to watch a overflow of inspired manta rays — one of a oceans many stately and peaceful creatures — slip their approach by dinner.

The sight, while magical, has turn sincerely routine. But a organisation of seasoned dive photographers from Manta Ray Advocates Hawaii

“We’ve finished tons of manta ray dives each night given 1991 and we’ve never ever, ever seen a priest sign on it,” Ryan Leinbach, one of a photographers, told Hawaii News Now

This sold priest seal, named Waimanu, is one of only 3 priest seals to live Hawaii’s Big Island

There are now fewer than 1,200

The divers made certain to minimize interaction

Stacie Robinson of a NOAA’s Hawaiian Monk Seal Research Program told Hawaii News Now that increasing tellurian hit could lead to contingent dependence.

“The some-more they’re accustomed to humans, a some-more they consider it’s fine or beguiling to play with humans or correlate — a some-more risk that animal is going to have and a harder it is for us to strengthen this unequivocally special Hawaiian species,” she said.

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