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Hawaiian monk seal lying on the beach on Tern Island, in Lalo (French Frigate Shoals), in the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument on May 3, 2011. NOAA photo by Mark Sullivan, NOAA Fisheries Hawaiian Monk Seal Research Program. Used under a Creative Commons license.