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News headlines: "make better choices": endangered Hawaiian monk seals keep getting eels stuck up their noses and scientists want them to stop. Accompanied by a photo of a seal with a slender eel hanging out of its nose. tkingfisher: So the really fabulous thing about this is that while there’s two basic theories about how the seals get an eel up their nose, there are also problems with both of them. The first is that the seal is shoving its head in holes in the rocks and the eel panics and goes for what looks like a hole—ie a seal nostril. And that would be a great theory, except that seals have what are described as “extremely muscular nostrils” because they gotta slam them closed when diving to keep water out.