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 marine mammal physiology lab 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…
