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Mary Foss Starn has a pen pal 72 years after she wrote her address on one of the eggs she was packing in an Iowa factory for shipment to the East Coast: John Amalfitano, a New Jersey man who was bequeathed the egg by a neighbor, then saw a post about it on a Facebook page.
Amid a high level of manatee mortality, Manatee County's Bishop Museum of Science and Nature will receive more than $500,000 from the state to expand its care program to help save the manatees.
Millions of dollars from Florida's state budget will be funneled into projects to protect manatees and their habitats as their population faces high death rates.
The unprecedented, experimental program to feed starving manatees in Florida is ending, but the greater issue is the polluted water that causes the marine mammals to run out of their natural seagrass forage.
An experimental program to save manatees from starvation by feeding them tons of lettuce is scaling back now that the water is getting warmer again.