Guadalupe seal

The guadalupe fur seal was thought to be extinct after American and Russian hunters had plundered thier skins. By 1892 they were considered extinct. In 1926 two sailors found a small colony. They captured 2 and tried, unsuccessfully to sell them to San Diego zoo. One of the sailors returned to slaughter the colny out of spite. He later turned up in Panama trying to trade thier skins. He was killed in a bar room brawl. Thier location seemed lost until a zoologist tracked down the 2nd sailor who revealed thier whereabouts in 1950 on his deathbed.