{"id":653112,"date":"2026-05-19T21:17:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T21:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/653112\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T21:17:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T21:17:15","slug":"wildlife-officials-identify-hawaiian-monk-seal-found-dead-off-nanakuli-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/653112\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildlife officials identify Hawaiian Monk Seal found dead off Nanakuli Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) &#8211; Wildlife officials have identified the Hawaiian Monk Seal found dead off the Nanakuli Coast earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says R-H 32, known to the community as Ka\u2019ale, was frequently seen along the Wai\u2019ane Coast. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaiinewsnow.com\/2026\/05\/09\/dead-monk-seal-carcass-removed-waters-off-west-oahu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.hawaiinewsnow.com\/2026\/05\/09\/dead-monk-seal-carcass-removed-waters-off-west-oahu\/\">Ka\u2019ale was recovered by NOAA partners after a dead monk seal was reported on their marine response hotline on May 6. <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A video of city, state, and federal teams removing the carcass from the shoreline was posted to Instagram by HHHnewz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A post-mortem exam will help determine what caused the seal\u2019s death. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The results could take several weeks. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">To report any marine life in distress, call (888) 256-9840.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Hawaii News Now. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) &#8211; Wildlife officials have identified the Hawaiian Monk Seal found dead off the Nanakuli Coast earlier&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-653112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}