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Come face-to-face with Florida’s most gentle giants! In this dive adventure, we explore the clear waters of Weeki Wachee ...
Maxwell: Hundreds of manatees have starved to death in Florida waters, due to pollution. A federal job says Florida didn’t do ...
Calliope, as she is known, was found orphaned in 2021 in Cayo Costa, FWC says. She was too young to survive on her own, so Calliope spent the next three years being raised at zoos, including Zoo Tampa ...
Jeff Corwin, a biologist and conservationist who has hosted TV shows for nearly three decades, loves Florida’s manatees. In fact, sea cows were featured in the second episode of his very first ...
Nearly 2,000 manatees died in the state in 2021 and 2022, a two-year record. Widespread water quality problems and seagrass ...
Manatees, nicknamed sea cows, are foragers that rely on a plant-based diet. They can eat up to 150 pounds of food per day. According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission ...
FLORIDA — The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is reminding boaters to go slow and keep an eye out for manatees this spring as temperatures warm and sea cows migrate out of ...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Officials with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission announced Wednesday that the Unusual Mortality Event (UME) for manatees in Florida has officially ended ...
at Manatee Lagoon, a free attraction operated by Florida Power & Light Company that lets the public view and learn about the sea cows who gather in winter in the warm-water outflows of the company ...
A one-day manatee survey in Crystal River is the focal point of one episode of Jeff Corwin’s current series, “Extraordinary World.” ...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Officials with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission announced Wednesday that the Unusual Mortality Event (UME) for manatees in Florida has officially ended, ...