The winter killing season for manatees along Central Florida's Atlantic coast is winding down with an astounding turn of events—a tiny fraction of the animals died compared to during the last two years.
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Blue Spring in Volusia County is a popular place to see manatees but there's never been an event like Monday, when manatee after manatee was unloaded from trucks and set free after a long stay in recovery and rehabilitation.
Ecology
Feb 14, 2023
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For the second year in a row, more Florida manatees died than normal as the species battles a human-caused seagrass famine.
Plants & Animals
Jan 12, 2023
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When the state's wildlife department flung the first handful of lettuce to a starving manatee in the Indian River a year ago, it was an act of desperation driven by a catastrophic die-off and violating an environmental golden ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 3, 2023
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A cold spell and plunge in water temperature often mean a death sentence for manatees, but those in the Indian River—despite harsh environmental conditions and widespread starvation—survived the Christmas freeze without ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 28, 2022
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Manatees caught in a starvation crisis in the Indian River east of Orlando may not be as stricken as a year ago, wildlife officials said Wednesday.
Plants & Animals
Dec 22, 2022
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In a lull before a feared return to disaster, wildlife authorities said Wednesday they are about to receive truckloads of lettuce for feeding starving manatees this winter in the coastal Indian River east of Orlando.
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Dec 15, 2022
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Three researchers, one with the University of Michigan, the other two with the University of Casablanca, have found a skull and partial skeleton in Morocco that they suggest link together several species of ancient whales. ...
Lettuce will be on the menu again this year for Florida manatees as part of an effort to slow the starvation deaths of the beloved marine mammals, wildlife officials said Wednesday.
Ecology
Nov 16, 2022
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Hurricane Ian not only ravaged southwest Florida on land but was destructive underwater as well. It destroyed man-made reefs and brought along red tide, the harmful algae blooms that kill fish and birds, according to marine ...
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Manatees (family Trichechidae, genus Trichechus) are large, fully aquatic, mostly herbivorous marine mammals sometimes known as sea cows. There are three accepted living species of Trichechidae, representing three of the four living species in the order Sirenia: the Amazonian manatee (Trichechus inunguis), the West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus), and the West African manatee (Trichechus senegalensis). They measure up to 13 feet (4.0 m) long, weigh as much as 1,300 pounds (590 kg), and have paddle-like flippers. The name manatí comes from the Taíno, a pre-Columbian people of the Caribbean, meaning "breast".
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