{"id":529452,"date":"2026-01-20T08:55:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T08:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/529452\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T08:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T08:55:13","slug":"hawaiian-monk-seal-seen-soaking-up-sunshine-in-waikiki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/529452\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawaiian monk seal seen soaking up sunshine in Waikiki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) &#8211; Rocky, the Hawaiian monk seal mother of 15, was seen soaking up the sun in Waikiki on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">She was spotted near the lagoon, next to lifeguard tower 2-C. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Experts with the Hawaii Marine Animal Response were on site to make sure onlookers were respectful and kept a lawful distance. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI came here to Waikiki from Michigan, came over here at the beach, and I got an experience like this,\u201d Mike Zsohar said. \u201cNever seen this in Detroit. Really cool to see all the spectators around. She is alive, moving around a little, sunbathing &#8211; just like everybody else &#8211; and enjoying it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The law requires people to stay at least 50 feet away from monk seals and 150 feet away from mothers with pups. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Anyone who sees a seal is asked to alert the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration hotline at (888) 256-9840. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 Hawaii News Now. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) &#8211; Rocky, the Hawaiian monk seal mother of 15, was seen soaking up the sun in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":529453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[4749,3425,26621,120967,60217,47368,6575,120966,12461,29181,159,43297,582,67,132,68,47370,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-529452","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-animal","9":"tag-animals","10":"tag-hawaii","11":"tag-hawaiian","12":"tag-hmar","13":"tag-honolulu","14":"tag-marine","15":"tag-monk","16":"tag-noaa","17":"tag-rocky","18":"tag-science","19":"tag-seal","20":"tag-sun","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-waikiki","25":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115926592535177677","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}