The Odyssey of KP2: An Orphan Seal and a Marine Biologists Fight to Save a Species

ISBN: 0143123521

Author: Williams, Terrie M.

Condition: New

An inside look at a renowned marine biologists quest to save an abandoned, endangered seal pupOnly eleven hundred Hawaiian monk seals survive in the wild. Without intervention, they face certain extinction within fifty years. When a two-day-old Hawaiian monk seal pup, later named Kauai Pup 2, or KP2, is attacked and abandoned by his mother on a beach, he is rushed off on a journey that will take him across the ocean to the California marine lab of eminent wildlife biologist Dr. Terrie M. Williams. As Williams works with the boisterous KP2 to save his species, she forms a lasting bond with him that illustrates the importance of the survival of all earths creatures and the health of the worlds oceans.