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The poster-child endangered seal

By Henry Nicholls

4 July 2012

In The Odyssey of KP2, Terrie Williams tells the story of a Hawaiian monk seal that charmed all before him after being rescued by conservationists

FOR budding zoologists, the at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has got to be a pretty cool place to work. Among its non-human inmates are some parrots, three charismatic cockatoos, a pair of spirited dolphins relieved from mine-hunting duty for the US navy and, until recently, an orphaned Hawaiian monk seal called KP2.

In The Odyssey of KP2, the lab’s principal investigator Terrie Williams has crafted a fabulous biography of this singular animal, examining the…

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