“It almost does feel like one of those teenage trends that happen,” he said. “One juvenile seal did this very stupid thing and now the others are trying to mimic it.”

This seal is how I feel about 2018.

The scientists have removed "three or four" eels from juvenile monk seals' nostrils over the past two years, mostly in the last few months. The seals are fine. The eels died.*

“It’s just so shocking,” Claire Simeone, a veterinarian and monk seal expert based in Hawaii, told The Washington Post on Thursday. “It’s an animal that has another animal stuck up its nose.”

It is only shocking, Hawaiian monk-seal expert, because you spent your youth in some unproductive way when you could have been listening to re-runs of "I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again".



*It's the opening of the seventh seal that we have to worry about.