Animal Group Issues Statement After Seal Bites Tourist in Greece Seal sunning itself on an Alonnissos Island beach. Credit: Facebook/Alonissos Insider The seal protection organization the Hellenic Society for the Study and Protection of the Monk Seal, or MOm, issued a statement via social media on Thursday after Wednesday’s incident involving a wild seal that bit a female tourist off the Greek island of Alonissos, in the Northern Sporades. The woman was hospitalized on the nearby island of Skopelos but had to be transferred to a larger hospital on the mainland, in Volos, due to the severity of her injuries.