Observations and Questions Hawaiian Monk Seals

Observations and Questions Hawaiian Monk Seals

Observation

This is a photo of a Hawaiian monk seal with her baby. Study this image for 30 seconds. You will answer a question about it on the next slide.

Multiple Choice

This is a photo of a Hawaiian monk seal with her baby. Which is an observation that you can make from this photo?

• Monk Seals are endangered.

• The baby seal is nursing while it's mother lays on the sand.

• Some juvenile monk seals die of starvation

This is a photo of a Hawaiian monk seal with her baby.

• The baby seal is nursing while it's mother lays on the sand.

• There is no evidence in this photo that the seals are endangered.

• There is no evidence in this photo that some juveniles die of starvation.

A juvenile Hawaiian monk seal was found with a spotted eel in its nose at French Frigate Shoals in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands this past summer (Photo: NOAA Fisheries/Brittany Dolan).

Multiple Choice

What is one observation that can be made using only what you can observe in the photo.

• Eels are attacking Hawaiian monk seals.

• Hawaiian monk seals are dying because of poisonous eels.

• There is an eel stuck in the seal's nose.

Multiple Choice

What is one question you could ask based on what you notice in the photo

• Do seals eat octopus?

• Are seals afraid of sharks?

• Was the monk seal trying to eat the eel or did the eel jump into the seal's nose by mistake?

Multiple Select

Select all of the resources that living things require in order to survive

• Air

• Water

• Habitat

• Food

Multiple Select

Select the resources that Hawaiian Monk Seals need to survive

• Habitat/sun

• water

• food

• air

Multiple Choice

How is habitat limited for Hawaiian Monk Seals. Select all correct answers.

• Seals forget how to find the beach

• shorelines where they rest are shrinking due to erosion

• whales are pushing the seals out of their habitat

Multiple Choice

How is food a limited resource for juvenile monk seals?

• They keep diving in the deep ocean where there is not as much food.

• they have to compete with sharks for prey

• They forgot where to get their food

Multiple Choice

How is air a limited resource for Hawaiian Monk Seals?

• They can become entangled in fishing nets and drown

• They dive too deep and don't come up for air

• They forget how long they can hold their breath

Multiple Choice

How is water a limited resource for Hawaiian monk seals?

• they forget to drink water while they are laying on the beach

• They have to crawl too far to drink water

• They get water from the food they eat and food is limited

Poll

What is a question about Hawaiian Monk Seals that you would like to learn more about?

• How does plastic and garbage in the ocean affect monk seals?

• What can we do to help Hawaiian monk seals?

• When Hawaiian monk seals compete with sharks for food, what food are they competing over?

• How can we make resources more available to monk seals so they won't be limited for them?