Nikitas Vogiatzis, prepares to feed Panagis, a mediterranean monk seal, at the Attica Zoological Park, in eastern Athens, Greece, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis) When ...

Rare Mediterranean monk seals making a comeback thanks to conservation efforts - Mediterranean monk seals, which previously ...

Bruno D'Amicis / the-wildline.com The Mediterranean monk seal begins its life in a cave. Even after it grows to hunt and mate in open water, the seal sticks to its monkish ways. These retiring ...

The Mediterranean monk seal, one of the world’s rarest marine mammals, is making a slow but steady recovery along Cyprus’ shores, the agriculture ministry said on Friday.With an estimated population ...

Soon, he’ll be well enough to go home. Panagis is one of dozens of Mediterranean monk seals, or Monachus monachus, that have been nursed back to health by Greece’s MOm, a charity dedicated to ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A Greek charity has been treating dozens of orphaned, sick and injured Mediterranean monk seals, rare marine mammals whose population had dwindled so dramatically that the ...