41. Florida Grapples With Plight Of Manatees CNN http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/05/27/florida.manatees.reut/index.html

42. Manatee -- Kids' Planet -- Defenders Of Wildlife Despite their small eyes and lack of outer ears, manatees are thought to see and hear quite well The largest population of manatees is found in Florida, http://www.kidsplanet.org/factsheets/manatee.html

Defenders of Wildlife 1101 Fourteenth St. Suite 1400 Washington, DC Tel: 202-682-9400 Fax: 202-682-1331 STATUS: Endangered DESCRIPTION: Manatees range in color from gray to brown. They use their two small front flippers to crawl along ocean or river bottoms. Their flat, horizontal tails are pumped up and down to move them along. Despite their small eyes and lack of outer ears, manatees are thought to see and hear quite well. SIZE: The average adult manatee weighs 1,500 to 1,800 pounds and measures ten to 12 feet in length. POPULATION: The largest population of manatees is found in Florida, where 3,000 individuals now live. LIFESPAN: Manatees are thought to live 50 to 60 years in the wild. RANGE: Manatees take up residence primarily in Florida’s coastal waters during winter and migrate either as far north as the Carolinas or as far west as Louisiana during the summer months. HABITAT: Manatees can be found in the warm waters of shallow rivers, bays, estuaries and coastal waters. Rarely do individuals venture into waters that are below 68 degrees Fahrenheit. FOOD: Manatees are herbivores and eat marine and freshwater plants.

43. Crackdown On Boaters Needed To Prevent Extinction Of Florida Manatees CNN http://cnn.com/2003/US/South/04/30/manatee.report.ap/index.html

44. Everglades National Park Manatees Information and links from the Everglades National Park. http://www.nps.gov/ever/eco/manatee.htm

Manatee E V E R G L A D E S N A T I O N A L P A R K An estimated 2,223 manatees were found in Florida during an aerial survey in January 2000. West Indian Manatee ( Trichechus manatus How do you describe a manatee to someone who has never seen one? Their wrinkled, whiskery faces, and big paddle-like tails have led some folks to call them homely. And yet there is an endearing charm to these animals that has fascinated many people who have seen them. The West Indian manatee is a marine mammal that grows to 1,000 pounds and roams U.S. coastal waters from Louisiana to Virginia. Similar to humans, manatees are adapted to the tropics and in winter months must seek warm waters like Florida Bay, where they are often seen by visitors. Manatees pull up and eat the abundant sea grasses and aquatic plants of the bay, consuming 10 to 15 percent of their body weight a day. Their time is divided between eating, resting and playing. They have limited eyesight but good hearing and communicate with one another in squeaks and squeals. Research shows the manatee to be a gentle animal with few enemies. So why are they endangered? Unfortunately, most of their problems are human-related. As our cities expand, their natural habitat is decreased. Added to this problem is the establishment of automatic locks and dams which can harm or kill manatees.

45. Loss Of Power Plants May Hurt Florida's Manatees CNN http://cnn.com/2003/US/South/01/06/florida.manatees.ap/index.html

46. The Magnificent Manatee stunning sirenians manatees on the Web. manatees are quite agile creatures. A manatee uses its flippers and tail to steer itself. http://www.manatees.net/

M ANATEES Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Sirenia Family: Trichechidae Species: Amazonian Manatee - Trichechus inunguis West African Manatee - Trichechus senagalensis West Indian Manatee - Trichechus manatus Sub-Species: Florida Manatee - Trichechus manatus latirostris Antillian Manatee - Trichechus manatus manatus Related Family: Dugongidae (Arctic Sea Cows - extinct - and Dugongs) Manatees and dugongs are marine mammals of the order Sirenia. They originated in the middle Eocene period around 45 to 50 million years ago. They are gentle, plant-eating herbivores sometimes nicknamed "sea cows". The name manatee comes from the Haitian word manati . Today, their closest living relatives are elephants [Proboscideans], hyraxes [Hyracoidea] and aardvarks [Tubulidentata]. Manatees are classified as [sub-]ungulates, even though they live in the water. Their thick-skinned, streamlined, almost hairless bodies have forelimbs modified into flippers. The tail is enlarged and horizontally-flattened. Manatees are now quite rare. Perhaps only 2,500 are left in the USA. In ancient times, sailors mistook them for mermaids or sirens on account of their long tails. Today, they often bear scars on account of their collisions with boats, a major hazard. Manatees spend most of their time feeding, resting or travelling. They prefer shallow saltwater bays, slow-moving rivers, canals, estuaries and coastal waters. Manatees are quite agile creatures. A manatee uses its flippers and tail to steer itself. It moves its tail up and down to propel its body forward through the water. Manatees can swim vertically and upside down; they can do rolls and perform aquatic somersaults. Their extra-dense bones enable them to stay suspended at or below the water's surface.

47. Fleeing Males, Manatees Beach In Florida CNN http://cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/07/30/environment.manatees.reut/index.html

48. Help The Manatees Last year alone, 305 manatees were killed in Florida waters 95 of those I urge you to protect endangered Florida manatees by designating refuges and http://www.helpmanatees.org/

Find Out More Donate to Help the Manatees Official Defenders Gear Defenders Home Page You can help save bears and other wildlife by using a Defenders of Wildlife credit card. Apply Today! A Project of: Defenders of Wildlife 1130 17th Street NW Washington DC 20036 Defenders of Wildlife does not sell, trade, or rent your personal information to others. More than 1,000 Florida manatees have been killed by careless boaters in the past 25 years. Last year alone, 305 manatees were killed in Florida waters 95 of those by collisions with boats, a record high. And the number of manatees either maimed or killed each year by boat propellers continues to grow. This injury comes on top of the relentless loss and degradation of manatee habitat. In 2001, citizens won a court settlement that requires the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to propose new protections for manatees, and to reduce the number of deaths from collisions with boats. New safe havens are supposed to be established for these endangered sea cows. Recent research by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) shows that the manatee's situation is more desperate than the FWS previously acknowledged. The study is being used by the FWS for their Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Marine Mammal Protection Act rulemaking on incidental take. The research concludes that unless major protections are provided to reduce water craft related mortality and injury in the Southwest and Atlantic regions where most manatees are found, the species will not recover within the next 100 years.

49. CNN - Manatees Bewilder And Surprise Scientists - August 27, 1998 CNN http://www.cnn.com/TECH/science/9808/28/manatees.yoto/index.html

MAIN PAGE WORLD ASIANOW U.S. ... news quiz CNN WEB SITES: TIME INC. SITES: Go To ... Time.com People Money Fortune EW MORE SERVICES: video on demand video archive audio on demand news email services ... pagenet DISCUSSION: message boards chat feedback SITE GUIDES: help contents search FASTER ACCESS: europe japan WEB SERVICES: Manatees bewilder and surprise scientists On April 22, USGS biologists satellite tagged and released Mo into Crystal River, Florida, which is near where he was found as a newborn calf in 1994 August 27, 1998 Web posted at: 2:30 PM EDT By Environmental News Network staff (ENN) Captive manatees that have been released into the wild have bewildered and surprised the scientists who study them. One manatee roamed hundreds of miles away from normal manatee habitat before it was rescued by researchers and another manatee gave birth to a calf in the wild a first for a captive reared female. Mo, a captive-reared West Indian manatee, was rescued by U.S. Geological Survey biologist Jim Reid and a field crew from SeaWorld in Orlando, Fla., nearly 300 miles from where he was released and had lost 180 pounds. Suffering from dehydration and malnutrition, he is lucky to be alive. "Mo is one lucky manatee. He was drifting away from land and it was pure luck that the Sea World field crew was available for his rescue," said Reid.

50. Manatee West Indian manatees are large, graybrown aquatic mammals West Indian manatees are also protected by the Florida Manatee Sanctuary Act of...... http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/5960/manatee.html

The Manatee Description: West Indian manatees are large, gray-brown aquatic mammals with bodies that taper to a flat, paddle- shaped tail. They have two flippers with three to four nails on each, and their head and face are wrinkled with whiskers on the snout. The manatee's closest relative is the elephant and hyrax (a small furry animal that resembles a rodent). Manatees are believed to have evolved from a wading, plant-eating animal. The West Indian manatee is related to the West African manatee, the Amazonian manatee, the dugong, and Steller's sea cow, which was hunted to extinction in 1768. The average adult manatee is about 10 feet long and weighs about 1,000 pounds. Habitat and Range: Manatees can be found in shallow, slow-moving rivers, estuaries, saltwater bays, canals and coastal areas. Manatees are a migratory species. Within the United States, West Indian manatees are concentrated in Florida in the winter, but can be found in summer months as far west as Alabama and as far north as Virginia and the Carolinas. West Indian manatees can also be found in the coastal and inland waterways of Central America and along the northern coast of South America, although distribution in these areas may be spotty. Behavior: Manatees are gentle and slow-moving. Most of their time is spent eating, resting, and in travel. Manatees are completely herbivorous. They eat aquatic plants and can consume 10-15% of their body weight daily in vegetation. They graze for food along water bottoms and on the surface. They may rest submerged at the bottom or just below the surface, coming up to breathe on the average of every three to five minutes. When manatees are using a great deal of energy, they may surface to breathe as often as every 30 seconds.

51. CNN - Florida Manatees Share Small Gene Pool - November 18, 1998 CNN http://www.cnn.com/TECH/science/9811/19/manatee.yoto/index.html

MAIN PAGE WORLD ASIANOW U.S. ... news quiz CNN WEB SITES: TIME INC. SITES: Go To ... Time.com People Money Fortune EW MORE SERVICES: video on demand video archive audio on demand news email services ... pagenet DISCUSSION: message boards chat feedback SITE GUIDES: help contents search FASTER ACCESS: europe japan WEB SERVICES: Florida manatees share small gene pool Florida's manatees stick close to home November 18, 1998 Web posted at: 2:00 PM EST By Environmental News Network staff (ENN) Out in the open ocean, a manatee the giant gentle vegetarian sea cow looks like an easy meal to predators big, slow and tasty. So Florida's manatees have made it a point to stick close to home, in coastal waters and rivers. But their isolation, while protecting them from becoming a tasty meal for a shark has also lead to dangerously low genetic diversity. University of Florida researchers collected blood, skin and tissue samples from manatees in Florida, South and Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean. By looking at the genetic traits of the different manatees, biologists now believe a small number of Caribbean sea cows colonized Florida waters in the last 10,000 years. With only a few ancestors to start with, today's manatees could face inbreeding problems, making it harder for the species to cope. "What we've learned is the Florida manatee is genetically unique, and that it's isolated from manatees elsewhere in the Caribbean and the Yucatan," said Brian Bowen, a conservation geneticist with the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. "Because of their low genetic diversity, it causes concern but not alarm."

52. CNN - Manatees Get Sanctuary In Florida - October 26, 1998 CNN http://www.cnn.com/TECH/science/9810/26/manatees.yoto/index.html

MAIN PAGE WORLD ASIANOW U.S. ... news quiz CNN WEB SITES: TIME INC. SITES: Go To ... Time.com People Money Fortune EW MORE SERVICES: video on demand video archive audio on demand news email services ... pagenet DISCUSSION: message boards chat feedback SITE GUIDES: help contents search FASTER ACCESS: europe japan WEB SERVICES: Manatees get sanctuary in Florida October 26, 1998 Web posted at: 2:10 PM EDT By Environmental News Network staff Manatees leave warm-water sites when people approach them, encircle them, pursue them, or otherwise disturb and harass them to the point that they become uncomfortable. (ENN) Manatees have a new sanctuary to resort to when they are feeling harassed by eager tourists at Three Sisters Spring at Kings Bay in Crystal River, Fla., reports the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The sanctuary, which was set aside on a temporary, emergency basis last November, covers less than one-fourth of an acre. It allows manatees to retreat from people during their long winter stay in the area. All waterborne activities are prohibited in the area from Nov. 15 through March 31 of each year. "The Fish and Wildlife Service believes a sanctuary is the only solution for protecting manatees in Three Sisters Spring given the level of harassment that has been observed and reported here," said the Southeast Regional Director Sam D. Hamilton.

53.  FWC  Manatee Program Imperiled Species. Law and Code Manual. Law Enforcement. Licenses. manatees. News Releases. Outdoor Recreation. Permits. Research http://myfwc.com/manatee/

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54. Brandon Cole Marine Photography. Underwater Stock Photography Of Whales, Dolphin Specialist in worldwide marine environments; Searchable web site includes whales, dolphins, sharks, manatees, and salmon. http://www.brandoncole.com/

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55. Manatees Welcome to World Kids Network Critters area. Learn about the Manatee. http://worldkids.net/critters/endangered/manatee.htm

Manatees Manatees, also known as sea cows, are an gentle endangered species. There are three species of manatees: the Amazonian, the West Indian, and the West African manatee. The Amazonian manatee is found in the Amazon river. The West Indian is found in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean. The West African manatee is found in the rivers of Western Africa. Manatees are herbivores, a animal that eats plants. Manatees are also one of the few species of aquatic mammals. Adult manatees can range from eight to fifteen feet long, depending on the species, and can weigh 440 to 1300 pounds. They normally live in small family groups and herds of 15 to 20 manatees. Manatees have become endangered because of hunting for their hides, meat, and blubber oil. The United States has made a law to protect these gentle creatures. One useful trait of the manatee is that they irrigate and clear the channels they live in when they eat. Many scientists are trying to figure out a way to keep the manatees from becoming extinct. The way things are, the next generation probably won't be born to see this graceful creature. Erika Webb Age: 10 December 1996 Animal Reporter Contest Winner Suggestion Box Critter Questions Pets Birds Fish ... WKN Galaxy Map tm Map Site Index Search WKN Unauthorized Reproduction Prohibited

56. Wild About Animals Suzanne P. Vaughan. Information about wolves, bats, manatees and her pets. http://www.spvwolves.com

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57. Manatees In Florida Information and photos of Florida manatees. http://www.realestatesarasota.net/manatee/

On-line Information Manatee in Florida GULF COAST PROPERTIES FOR SALE Anna Maria Island Bird Key Casey Key Home ... Waterfront Map REAL ESTATE SERVICES SEARCH ALL SARASOTA REAL ESTATE MLS Contact us References About us INTERESTING IN SARASOTA FLORIDA Dolphins Birds Manatees Florida Bobcat MANATEE IMAGES (Click to enlarge, use back arrow to return) LINKS Clients: Find a realtor in another state Realtors: Exchange Links With Us Manatees on the Sarasota Gulf Coast! What is a Manatee? Manatees are a large, slow-moving marine mammal that inhabit warm tropical and subtropical waters of North and South America and Africa. The world population of manatees is extremely endangered. The last aerial survey of the Florida West Indian Manatees that live in Florida waters was taken in January 2003. The survey showed a population count of 3,113 manatees. Manatee Shape and Size Average adult manatees are about 10 to 14 feet long and weigh between 1,500 to 1,800 pounds, although the largest are over 13 feet and weigh 3,500 pounds. Their torpedo-shaped gray-brown bodies taper into flat, paddle-like tails. They have two flippers and their faces are wrinkled with whiskers on the snout. Nostrils are on the upper surface of the snout which close tightly like valves when submerged. Manatees live to be approximately 60 years old. Manatee Diet Manatees eat by using their divided upper lip, which is very flexible, to grasp and take in sea grass and floating freshwater plants. A manatee’s only teeth are molars, for grinding vegetation. Some research suggests that manatees periodically require fresh water. West Indian manatees have been seen congregating at river mouths and drinking from hoses, culverts, and sewage outfalls. Up to six to eight hours each day is spent in the seagrass beds feeding. Manatees are completely herbivorous and can eat 10-15% of their body weight daily, or 100 to 150 pounds of vegetation for a 1,000-pound manatee. Like other air-breathing marine mammals (dolphins, whales, and seals), manatees must periodically surface for air.

58. Endangered Manatees Face Risks--National Geographic Kids Magazine But manatees are not mythical. They are real, and they are in trouble. In the United States, West Indian manatees are endangered. As mammals, manatees must http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngkids/9808/manatee/

Parents: Nationalgeographic.com Home Kids Home NG Kids Magazine NG Explorer Classroom Magazine ... Kids News As mammals, manatees must surface to breathe air. As vegetarians, they spend up to eight hours a day pulling plants toward their mouths with their flippers and flexible lips. A large manatee eats up to 200 pounds (91 kilograms) of sea grass and water hyacinths in a single day. EYE TO EYE HEADS UP! Fortunately scientists, wildlife officials, and others are trying to help. They are establishing manatee refuges and encouraging people on the water to act in ways that are manatee friendly. Perhaps, working together, we can save the manatee. Do YOU think endangered manatees can be saved? Read what other Kids think. And check out the and the Save the Manatee Club site Text by Fiona Sunquist Top photograph by Doc White/Jeff Foott Productions Bottom photograph by Brandon D. Cole Kids Home NG Kids Magazine NG Explorer Classroom Magazine Games ... Kids News Parents and Educators: E-Mail Newsletters Shopping Subscriptions

59. Facts And Photos Of The Florida Manatee At Crystal River, Florida Information, Photos and Facts and on the West Indian Manatee, Crystal River Florida diving and snorkeling with manatees, Crystal River, Florida http://www.scubacrystalriver.com/manateefacts.html

HOME ABOUT CAPT. JOHN CONTACT ME E-MAIL ME ... TESTIMONIALS ~ WHAT OTHERS SAY Manatee Facts The West Indian manatee was discovered in the 1500s by Spanish explorers that hunted them for their meat, hide, and oils. Hunted almost to extinction, Florida banned the hunting of manatees in 1893. The official "season" for Florida Manatee is October 15th to March 31st. But there are Manatee that stay in certain areas all year. In warmer months manatees spend most of their time at sea and out of harm's way, but from October they 15th to March 31st, the colder weather drives them inland to places where can find warm water. Florida's Crystal River National Wildlife Refuge supports the largest concentration. During the summer months the best time to catch them is in the morning when they are frolicking and sunning. They usually stay in one area when they are in the "morning mode" and can be approached quite easily. In the afternoon, when the sun is hot they stay mainly on the bottom or are on the move for food. When the air temperature drops below the water temperature of 72 degrees (72 degrees is the year round temperature for Crystal River) for several days, hundreds upon hundreds of manatee are in river. Best sightings are on the coldest days of the year.of manatees in a natural spring area, all year round.

60. Lesson Plans - What Are Manatees? This lesson introduces students to manatees. Students will learn about manatees look at pictures of manatees and describe their impressions of these http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/14/gk2/manateeswhat.html

Check out: X14: The Garden Standard #14: How human actions modify the physical environment Aral Sea ... Department of Crane-Land Security What Are Manatees? Can We Keep the Lake Clean? Crane Cam! Forest Features Our National Parks: Recreation and Preservation Protecting Africa's Wildlife Right Whales and People Sharks: Should They Be Afraid of Us? Taking Care of Our Oceans Complete Index What Are Manatees? Overview: This lesson introduces students to manatees . Students will learn about manatees' behavioral characteristics and how manatees in captivity interact with people. They will conclude by creating "manatee booklets" to educate others about this species. Connections to the Curriculum: Geography, life science Connections to the National Geography Standards: Standard 8: "The characteristics and spatial distribution of ecosystems on Earth's surface" Standard 14: "How human actions modify the physical environment" Time: Two hours Materials Required: Computer with Internet access Blank Xpeditions outline map of the United States Drawing materials Objectives: Students will look at pictures of manatees and describe their impressions of these animals;

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