caa a22 4500 388047240 CHVBK 20180307125041.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199810 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1046/j.1365-3008.1998.d01-61.x doi S0030605300030118 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1046/j.1365-3008.1998.d01-61.x Circumstantial evidence for the presence of monk seals in the West Indies [Elektronische Daten] Based on interviews with 93 fishermen in northern Haiti and Jamaica during 1997 an assessment was made of the likelihood that monk seals survive in this region of the West Indies. Fishermen were asked to select marine species known to them from randomly arranged pictures: 22.6 per cent (n = 21) selected monk seals. This number was significantly (P < 0.001) greater than the number who selected control species (walrus, harbour seal, and sea-lion) that they were unlikely to have observed. However, it was not significantly different (n = 19, P > 0.1) from the number who selected manatees, which are known to occur in the region in small numbers. More than 95 per cent of respondents also identified species that are known to occur commonly in the region. Further questioning of the 21 respondents who selected monk seals suggested that 16 (78 per cent) of them had seen at least one in the past 1-2 years. Those fishermen that were able to provide further descriptions gave information about size and colour that was consistent with many of these seals being monk seals. It is possible that the Caribbean monk seal is not extinct. Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1998 Boyd I. L. Seamark Trust, 165 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 7NA, UK. Stanfield M. P. Seamark Trust, 165 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 7NA, UK. Oryx Cambridge University Press 32/4(1998-10), 310-316 0030-6053 32:4<310 1998 32 ORX https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-3008.1998.d01-61.x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-3008.1998.d01-61.x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Boyd I. L. Seamark Trust, 165 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 7NA, UK NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Stanfield M. P. Seamark Trust, 165 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 7NA, UK NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Oryx Cambridge University Press 32/4(1998-10), 310-316 0030-6053 32:4<310 1998 32 ORX CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge