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Don’t touch the monk seals

By Sarah Laskow, Atlas Obscura

While traveling to Po'ipu beach, Kauaʻi, a man from Alabama came across a monk seal, lying asleep on the beach. It was a rare experience: There are only 1,400 Hawaiian monk seals left in the world. The man crept up close, filming with his phone, reached out and stroked the seal's side. Startled, the seal woke up and turned toward the man, who fled the beach, right past a sign that warned against getting close to wildlife.

He posted the whole encounter on Instagram.

It's become popular to share this kind of encounter with a wild animal on social media. In this case, the post led authorities from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration right to the culprit. Under laws that protect endangered and marine mammals, this man-seal meeting was illegal. Based on the footage he had posted, the man was fined $1,500.

In the past, people approached wild animals mostly to kill or capture them; otherwise, they gave them a wide berth. Animals as large as monk seals can be dangerous. But as the wild parts of the world disappear and human influence expands, an encounter with a wild animal can seem like a special experience. People can't resist getting too close- and showing their friends what happened.

A sloth at a wildlife rescue center on May 11, 2018 in Marshall, North Carolina. Photo by George Rose/Getty Images.

Social media companies and government agencies are trying to discourage this trend. Earlier this year, Instagram blocked the hashtag #quokkaselfie, a popular tag for photos featuring people posing next to sloths. The social media network also created a message about animal abuse that would pop up whenever a user searched something like "hug a sloth." When people have come too close to wild creatures, government agencies have tracked them down and fined them, in the hope that the dad who lifted a baby manatee from the water or the two guys who "surfed" on a sea turtle would become examples of what not to do.

Apart from the inherent danger of provoking a wild animal, these meetings can be fatal to the animals themselves. When people on the Pacific Northwest coast took home seal pups they thought were stranded, the pups didn't survive the ordeal. In Yellowstone, park rangers had to euthanize a baby bison after tourists took it for a ride in their SUV.

Sometimes people are trying to help. But we endanger these animals' lives when we come too close. The least we can do is leave them alone when we encounter them directly. You can look, but don't touch.