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01-24-2011, 12:52 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location:
Posts: 2,376
M.O.C. #6575
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Aransas Bay Manatee
We've had a Manatee sighted several times around the Rockport area. They spent countless hours trying to locate and coral it before cold weather set in. They never got it, and DW called yesterday and said the carcass floated in by the hotel. Wish it could have ended differently.
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01-24-2011, 01:47 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Bonita Springs
Posts: 1,943
M.O.C. #6977
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Yes Will ;We loose them down here in Bonita Springs also .Its part of the sustem to keep the balance of what can and cannot survive in the world. Last year we lost a lot of wild life to the cold. Some was good to loose but others sorry. We lost so many snakes that in the last snake hunt , they could not even bait to find any of the type they were on the hunt for. So that was good but we have the Manatee here in our canal at times but not this winter yet. We do see manatee in the whats called "THE FISH BOWL" here on the Imperial River. We were out 1 week ago and saw 2 or 3 there. sailer
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01-24-2011, 02:32 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Land O Lakes
Posts: 2,783
M.O.C. #10246
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The Manatee is a beautiful animal...sad story.
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01-24-2011, 01:18 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Sun City Center
Posts: 626
M.O.C. #8563
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DH and I have been volunteering at Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo since 1999. DH dives with the manatees in the medical pools and viewing pools. He does clean up and observation. We have both worked with the manatees and been blessed enough to be invited on several manatee releases. Lowry Park Zoo is 1 of 3 manatee hospitals in Florida and the only non-profit. During the winter months we are so overcrowded with manatees when the temperature drops. They look like they have a lot of blubber on them, but it is very very thick skin on a large frame. Because they are vegetarians they do not produce enough body heat to sustain a warm enough temperature (because they are mammals). They suffer from "cold stress" whick is similar to hypothermia in humans. It affects their respiration. If they are not rescued in time, they will die. That is a tragedy for an already endangered animal.
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