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It’s a quintessential Tampa Bay image: hundreds of manatees swimming beneath Tampa Electric’s Big Bend plant in Apollo Beach, bobbing like russet potatoes in a pot as they bask in the warm water released by the facility. For decades, it’s been a Florida winter tradition for locals to delight visitors with this scene. It also shows how much manatees rely on humans to survive. Years of ...
The interactive 180-degree undersea camera launched by the nonprofit Save the Manatee allows viewers to spot fish, birds, and if they're lucky, a sea cow.
Although rotund, manatees don’t have a complete blubber layer like whales, which makes them particularly susceptible to cold temperatures.
NASA touts PACE as "the first mission to provide measurements that enable prediction of the 'boom-bust' cycle of fisheries."
For the second straight year, manatee deaths have shown a significant and encouraging drop.