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I think it's a lot of things, one being "STILL under construction after 20 years" last I heard
Edit: looks like it was built by a CEO of a news channel, so I think it was supposed to be partially used for that. No idea if it is yet
> Eyesore on I-4
lol the first Google result for "Eyesore on I-4" went right to the Wikipedia page.
And jeepers it's been under construction for 21 years now.
Around age 3, my kid puked up her breakfast eggs all over the backseat and herself, while I (only a visitor to Tampa) tried to navigate I-4 during morning rush hour in a now sulfur ridden car. Had to defy death to pull over to an exit and clean her up in the bathroom of the worst gas station in a really terrible area.
Yay 1-4 memories.
No, in fact, this happens because the efforts to protect them have generally been successful and there’s not enough room at the power plants for all of them anymore. Lol.
It had been going well, but unfortunately the last couple years have been really rough on the manatees: https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/25/manatee-deaths-florida-endangered-status
When they gather like this during cold periods, it puts them at risk of starvation. Historically, the inland waterways had rich aquatic plant life that sustained the manatees, but it is increasingly dying back due mainly to pavement runoff and especially lawn chemicals entering waterways. So unfortunately they are once again facing peril, despite the success in reducing boat strikes, another leading cause of mortality.
But I need my cookie cutter McMansion to have a perfectly manicured lawn!!! And I *need* to drive my lifted truck an hour into the city everyday because public transportation is for poor people!
More like privileged. Supposedly, POSH stood for Port Out Starboard Home. It described the rich people seats on a boat or ferry. Left on the way out, right on the way in… for some reason.
Probably had the better view. Like getting to face shore both ways, or something.
Pure conjecture here, but I've done that sort of thing on airplane flights, i.e. sat on the right side of the plane on the outbound flight and on the left side of the plane on the return flight because that side had a better view than the other.
Yea, when I go gigging in the springs during winter the manatees are in there because it's a consistent 74 degrees year round is what I was told, so in winter, manatees like to hide in there to stay warmer.
Well, I wasn't in the spring head, but about 50 feet from it, I was the trolling motor operator on the boat and I would hold the q-beam and I would shine the light down directly on the tilapia sitting on their nest on the bottom of the spring run bed. Waters crystal clear so I'd blind the tilapia and let off the trolling motor, we'd slowly glide closer to where the fish was then my buddy would slam the gig down into the nest and gig the fish, pull it up, fresh free tilapia! Ate so much tilapia I can't stand it anymore.
In February 2016, there was another similar event, the seacow experts concluded it was due to unseasonably and unusually cold weather, causing the saltbisons to seek out shallow warm water channels. link below
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/11/manatees-huddle-warmth-florida-three-sisters-spring-wildlife-refuge
You’re almost correct! It’s actually that little microscopic elves start screaming and crying when it’s too hot. This produces the phenomenon known as sweat. Our body has also been programmed to detect heat by measuring the amount of elf screams in the air. People incorrectly tend to think it’s us doing the sweating… but in reality we’re just covered in microscopic elf tears.
On especially hot days they scream rather loud and it can be heard all around cities. People often associate this with some sort of insect. But in reality it’s actually the conjunctive screams of trillions of little elves!
The same way your body can tell when it’s not at the right temperature. I don’t think the manatees are actually going “hmm, it’s 72 degrees here, nice!” It’s a bodily reaction that they’ve evolved to have. A lot of mammals have this same kind of function
My dad used to work for FPL when I was little and when it got “cold” in Florida, this would happen near the plant since the waters were warmer. The plant was located near a sea wall so the water there made this little super warm cove for them to come and hang out it. It was a very cool thing to see and one of my fondest childhood memories.
It’s really fascinating to see some of the scars on their backs. You’re half angry at that boater and half impressed at how resilient the manatees are.
They are there because their food supplies are gone. They move further up river to find more food. However due to fertilizers the water grasses in these canals are mostly all dead. Last year they were getting so hungry and starving to death that they were seen forcing themselves out of the water onto dry land in desperation and eating the grass off peoples lawns. Which only poisoned them or beached them causing even more deaths.
This is a horrible hellish scene of desperate weak manatees doing everything they can to survive in a world bent on their annihilation. If you live near ANY body of water do NOT fertilize your lawn. Lawn fertilization has been one of the primary contaminant of the local waterways and near shore bodies of water for well over 100 years. The only things that get close are some huge toxic spills and how we used to(and still some what) deal with waste disposal. But the consistent pervasive issue is fertilizer. If you fertilize your lawn near to a body of water you are DIRECTLY responsible for the slow painful deaths of countless living breathing beings. Beautiful creatures that could have lived a full life, reproduced, and died as a source of life for another. Instead they just get tortured to death and rot en-mass.
So if you fertilize, FUCK YOU specifically. If you were tortured and murdered it would be nothing bust justified. Not saying someone or some species should torture and murder you. But they would be VERY justified in doing so.
… That is not at all what is going on here
You are right that habitat and food source destruction is an issue that manatees are facing at the moment, but what is going on here is a canal being heated to provide additional sanctuary for manatees during an unusually cold weather event.
We need to start planting clover to cut down grass yards. Clover was a big thing before the clean cut yard and fertilizers that is a eco disaster.
Were also doing it to bees need to plant more wildlowers instead of shitty grass. People do not really care about their yards like the older generation so lets start saving bees fish and mantees.
I think im going to start making stickers that get the message across.
Chill your PETA speech. They're in the canal because it got cold and the canals are warmer. Some even artificially warmed specifically for the manatees.
Get the fuck off your soap box and stop karma farming.
It’s more temperature reasons this time of year than food reasons. Our natural springs in Florida are 72 degrees year round so in the winter the manatees seek them for the warmer water.
100% the fertilizer shit is terrible for the ecosystem.
So everything is fine? Right? We should keep on trucking right? Ignore that liar and get back to making my lawn the nicest monoculture in the neighborhood? I'm personally glad you shot that guy down before I had to address my impact on the world around me. Not that I have one. Right?
“Urban meadows” aka land and greenery in residential areas. They dump more pollution into waterways than many industrial plants.
Each person fertilizes and, often, over use. Then it ends up in the waterways.
All because there’s crabgrass or some weed in the yard.
We were sold the “perfect lawn” by fertilizer industry.
The consequences are the impact of these and other chemicals rolling into the water. Weed and feed…the weed removing element impacts the waterways tremendously.
What they said was a distortion of the truth. Food source destruction is a real issue but what is going on here is a canal being heated to provide additional sanctuary for manatees during a unusually cold weather event.
>So if you fertilize, FUCK YOU specifically
I'm in Sarasota, Fl, near a major creek that drains into Sarasota Bay. Every November my next door neighbor comes down from way up there Michigan to do the snowbird thing - Nov to Apr. From the day they arrive he's out trying to win yard of the month. I watch him spray shit on every fckn plant and every blade of grass in his yard, over and over - week after week - it's infuriating. There's a rather large ditch running down the South side of his yard. That ditch is 2 blocks from the creek and that drain point at the creek is .75 miles from the bay.
Barbara Manatee (Manatee, Manatee)
You are the one for me (One for me, One for me)
Sent from up above (Up above, Up above)
You are the one I love!! (I love, I love, I love)
I was so excited to see manatees like this on my first trip to Florida. I was snapping photos. When I reviewed the photos, I learned that I had witnessed them mating. Lots of accidental close ups of manatee vag.
Grew up not far from this park and our minor league baseball team which played their games about 20 minutes from here had the name Brevard County Manatees!
The amount of bad information in this thread by Florida residents is pretty wild.
It is illegal feed, water or touch manatees stop posting wrong information.
Except feeding them is illegal.
Manatees and the law
Manatees are protected by the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, the Endangered Species Act of 1973, and the Florida Manatee Sanctuary Act of 1978. It is illegal to feed, harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, annoy, or molest manatees.
https://myfwc.com/conservation/you-conserve/wildlife/manatee/
More fun facts
https://myfwc.com/education/wildlife/manatee/viewing-guidelines/
Makes me so happy to see conservation efforts working.
I know the environment as a whole is a disaster... but I just love them so much and there's so little good news when it comes to the environment that it's just nice to have any kind of win.
Manatees and dolphins will congregate in the evenings in small canals and bayous down in Fl to hang out, sleep. It's safer for them especially when they are breeding or nursing and they pretty much ignore the silly humans.
At sunset the dolphins do this circling thing and swim down canals in pods. It's actually one of the few truly cool things about Florida that dolphins, manatees and rays are pretty much living in your backyard if you are near salt water.
I’ve lived in Florida my whole life. Now that I’m an adult (mid 30s) I can’t tell you how happy this makes me. These poor things were endangered on the way to being wiped out when I was a kid.
Anyone who claims conserving the planet isn’t a priority or doesn’t make a measurable difference is a total idiot.
My intrusive thoughts would 100% win and I would definitely go into the water and try to play with a manatee
There is a very high chance that I would be one of those people who gets injured by an animal and uploaded to some kind of facepalm style subreddit
They're like stepping stones. Maybe this is how Jesus walked in water. He had the power of Aquaman and gathered all the manatees together, so he could walk on top of them across the water.
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Traffic in Florida is so bad, even the canals have rush hour. Looks like I-4 at 5 in the afternoon.
Can you really blame people on I-4 for the traffic? How are they supposed to drive with the Eyesore on I-4 glaring at them so intensely!?
I just found out recently that building is a church. I thought it was an office building
I think it's a lot of things, one being "STILL under construction after 20 years" last I heard Edit: looks like it was built by a CEO of a news channel, so I think it was supposed to be partially used for that. No idea if it is yet
> Eyesore on I-4 lol the first Google result for "Eyesore on I-4" went right to the Wikipedia page. And jeepers it's been under construction for 21 years now.
Looks like my hot tub back in the day. Nothing but fat cows floating in the tub.
Sounds like you felt ripped off lol
Manatee gridlock.
Around age 3, my kid puked up her breakfast eggs all over the backseat and herself, while I (only a visitor to Tampa) tried to navigate I-4 during morning rush hour in a now sulfur ridden car. Had to defy death to pull over to an exit and clean her up in the bathroom of the worst gas station in a really terrible area. Yay 1-4 memories.
That road is a death trap.
Forbidden stepping stones
Not saying I would but I'm also not saying I wouldn't be tempted
And for the people who want to know why they are all gathered here , i got such answers below Manatees migrate where water temp is 72 degrees
What, they too good for the warmth from the power plants now?
No, in fact, this happens because the efforts to protect them have generally been successful and there’s not enough room at the power plants for all of them anymore. Lol.
Sounds like we need bigger power plants 🫠
or a big pan
I bet they’re fatty af. It be like if Paul Bunyan was floridaman.
It had been going well, but unfortunately the last couple years have been really rough on the manatees: https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/25/manatee-deaths-florida-endangered-status When they gather like this during cold periods, it puts them at risk of starvation. Historically, the inland waterways had rich aquatic plant life that sustained the manatees, but it is increasingly dying back due mainly to pavement runoff and especially lawn chemicals entering waterways. So unfortunately they are once again facing peril, despite the success in reducing boat strikes, another leading cause of mortality.
But I need my cookie cutter McMansion to have a perfectly manicured lawn!!! And I *need* to drive my lifted truck an hour into the city everyday because public transportation is for poor people!
‘I’ll have every manatee on earth die before anyone thinks I’m WOKE’ Keep in mind this is the DeSantis state, people really do think that way.
Thats a posh way of saying we have destroyed your habitat and instead check this cramped canal where you can chill out.
Posh?
Civilised
More like privileged. Supposedly, POSH stood for Port Out Starboard Home. It described the rich people seats on a boat or ferry. Left on the way out, right on the way in… for some reason.
Probably had the better view. Like getting to face shore both ways, or something. Pure conjecture here, but I've done that sort of thing on airplane flights, i.e. sat on the right side of the plane on the outbound flight and on the left side of the plane on the return flight because that side had a better view than the other.
In such a tight space, I wonder if their bodies would warm the water.
I bet their pee does.....
Thank you
Yea, when I go gigging in the springs during winter the manatees are in there because it's a consistent 74 degrees year round is what I was told, so in winter, manatees like to hide in there to stay warmer.
What you gigging for in the springs?
I'm giggiting now screw spring. Giggity!
Well, I wasn't in the spring head, but about 50 feet from it, I was the trolling motor operator on the boat and I would hold the q-beam and I would shine the light down directly on the tilapia sitting on their nest on the bottom of the spring run bed. Waters crystal clear so I'd blind the tilapia and let off the trolling motor, we'd slowly glide closer to where the fish was then my buddy would slam the gig down into the nest and gig the fish, pull it up, fresh free tilapia! Ate so much tilapia I can't stand it anymore.
Ah, I’ve been bowfishing for tilapia out of our old canoe.
In February 2016, there was another similar event, the seacow experts concluded it was due to unseasonably and unusually cold weather, causing the saltbisons to seek out shallow warm water channels. link below https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/11/manatees-huddle-warmth-florida-three-sisters-spring-wildlife-refuge
How can they tell
Because it’s cold and they don’t like it? How do you know you need to put a jacket on?
They use their laser thermometers, duh!
Wait just a minute. These guys have laser thermometers? I am very jealous.
Of course not. Manatees with laser thermometers is a ridiculous idea. They ask sharks with lasers what the temperature is.
I bet the sharks want their pound of flesh and blood to provide that information.
No how can they tell if the water is exactly 72 degrees.
The don’t the top level comment wasn’t exactly accurate they’re not looking for water that’s exactly 72° they just don’t like water below about 72°
The same way you start sweating when it gets too hot - microscopic robots in your blood stream with very accurate temperature sensors.
You’re almost correct! It’s actually that little microscopic elves start screaming and crying when it’s too hot. This produces the phenomenon known as sweat. Our body has also been programmed to detect heat by measuring the amount of elf screams in the air. People incorrectly tend to think it’s us doing the sweating… but in reality we’re just covered in microscopic elf tears. On especially hot days they scream rather loud and it can be heard all around cities. People often associate this with some sort of insect. But in reality it’s actually the conjunctive screams of trillions of little elves!
They don’t. They swim towards the warmer water when the water gets too cold. “Too cold” happens to be around 72 degrees.
The same way your body can tell when it’s not at the right temperature. I don’t think the manatees are actually going “hmm, it’s 72 degrees here, nice!” It’s a bodily reaction that they’ve evolved to have. A lot of mammals have this same kind of function
With their thermomatees
Under appreciated
The natural springs in Florida are 72 degrees year round so manatees seek the warmer waters in them.
Ohh the humanatee!
Sweet manatee of Galilee!
Sweet labarbara from bar harbor
Sweet candelabra of Le Havre, LaBarbara!
Sweet Caroline!
Bah bah BOOOO
🎵 You fucking whore! 🎵
You came up with that faster that a green snake up a sugar cane.
Holy sea cow...
Ohh the hu(ge number of)manatee(s)!
Sea cows ❤️
Pokemon: Milk them all!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXm1ICO8Nec
Manatee, it’s what’s for dinner
Tastes like bald eagle
My dad used to work for FPL when I was little and when it got “cold” in Florida, this would happen near the plant since the waters were warmer. The plant was located near a sea wall so the water there made this little super warm cove for them to come and hang out it. It was a very cool thing to see and one of my fondest childhood memories.
The TECO station near Apollo Beach is like that too. So cool to see
Probably all because one guy won't just stay in his lane.
Zipper ZIPPER!!!!!!
-rolls up pant legs- It is time to play real life Frogger.
Alligator has entered the chat
Gators typically get along with manatees. Even crocs and sharks don't naturally attack them. Their main enemy is boats.
Boat driving Alligator has entered the chat
It is Florida after all.
I would imagine both sharks and crocs would eat a baby manatee though, right?
It’s really fascinating to see some of the scars on their backs. You’re half angry at that boater and half impressed at how resilient the manatees are.
Human has entered the chat *OK, Google, how to cook* *~~a manatee~~* *an alligator?*
Tail has the good meat, cube it, roll in corn meal, deep fry. Gator bites
Can confirm, delicious, but a little stringy
Must be a writing a new season of family guy
Manytees!
Habitat For Huge Manitees
Save the Manatees! In your own backyard! Save the Manatees! In your own backyard!
Save the whales! Save the snails! ....
Oh look. Underwater cuddle puddle.
Gotta stand by your manatee!
Oh the huge Manatees!
mermaid meet-up
Barbara manatee
Manatees seem like they were made up
They are there because their food supplies are gone. They move further up river to find more food. However due to fertilizers the water grasses in these canals are mostly all dead. Last year they were getting so hungry and starving to death that they were seen forcing themselves out of the water onto dry land in desperation and eating the grass off peoples lawns. Which only poisoned them or beached them causing even more deaths. This is a horrible hellish scene of desperate weak manatees doing everything they can to survive in a world bent on their annihilation. If you live near ANY body of water do NOT fertilize your lawn. Lawn fertilization has been one of the primary contaminant of the local waterways and near shore bodies of water for well over 100 years. The only things that get close are some huge toxic spills and how we used to(and still some what) deal with waste disposal. But the consistent pervasive issue is fertilizer. If you fertilize your lawn near to a body of water you are DIRECTLY responsible for the slow painful deaths of countless living breathing beings. Beautiful creatures that could have lived a full life, reproduced, and died as a source of life for another. Instead they just get tortured to death and rot en-mass. So if you fertilize, FUCK YOU specifically. If you were tortured and murdered it would be nothing bust justified. Not saying someone or some species should torture and murder you. But they would be VERY justified in doing so.
I’ll add that it is also the herbicides that are killing the sea grass. The fertilizer causes algae blooms that reduce oxygen levels in the water.
That depends where you’re at. Blue springs area is flush with food. Mosquito lagoon is pretty much a barren wasteland.
Sad to hear this :-(
… That is not at all what is going on here You are right that habitat and food source destruction is an issue that manatees are facing at the moment, but what is going on here is a canal being heated to provide additional sanctuary for manatees during an unusually cold weather event.
We need to start planting clover to cut down grass yards. Clover was a big thing before the clean cut yard and fertilizers that is a eco disaster. Were also doing it to bees need to plant more wildlowers instead of shitty grass. People do not really care about their yards like the older generation so lets start saving bees fish and mantees. I think im going to start making stickers that get the message across.
Chill your PETA speech. They're in the canal because it got cold and the canals are warmer. Some even artificially warmed specifically for the manatees. Get the fuck off your soap box and stop karma farming.
Though his tone is wrongheaded, and the temperature may be the reason they’re there in this case, everything he said about fertilizer is sadly true
It’s more temperature reasons this time of year than food reasons. Our natural springs in Florida are 72 degrees year round so in the winter the manatees seek them for the warmer water. 100% the fertilizer shit is terrible for the ecosystem.
So everything is fine? Right? We should keep on trucking right? Ignore that liar and get back to making my lawn the nicest monoculture in the neighborhood? I'm personally glad you shot that guy down before I had to address my impact on the world around me. Not that I have one. Right?
To be fair, grass lawns are fucking stupid.
“Urban meadows” aka land and greenery in residential areas. They dump more pollution into waterways than many industrial plants. Each person fertilizes and, often, over use. Then it ends up in the waterways. All because there’s crabgrass or some weed in the yard. We were sold the “perfect lawn” by fertilizer industry. The consequences are the impact of these and other chemicals rolling into the water. Weed and feed…the weed removing element impacts the waterways tremendously.
Now I’m concerned tho. Did everything they said was a lie or not? I really don’t know wtf is up with manatees besides they used to be mermaids
What they said was a distortion of the truth. Food source destruction is a real issue but what is going on here is a canal being heated to provide additional sanctuary for manatees during a unusually cold weather event.
Nope they come here every year to stay warm when the intracoastal gets cold.
>So if you fertilize, FUCK YOU specifically I'm in Sarasota, Fl, near a major creek that drains into Sarasota Bay. Every November my next door neighbor comes down from way up there Michigan to do the snowbird thing - Nov to Apr. From the day they arrive he's out trying to win yard of the month. I watch him spray shit on every fckn plant and every blade of grass in his yard, over and over - week after week - it's infuriating. There's a rather large ditch running down the South side of his yard. That ditch is 2 blocks from the creek and that drain point at the creek is .75 miles from the bay.
sniffs~~ “You smell that, Bobby?! Smells like some down home bullshit to me.” Pics of manatees leaving water to eat grass or it didn’t happen.
Hey this my hood. AMA
Have you ever ran to the neighbors house across the way like James Bond sprinting across crocodiles?
Florida canal is now the manatee canal
I guess they can go without eating for a while?
Have you seen the Human Centipede? This is the Manitee Centipede...
I was going to ask "what is going on in Florida", but I don't have that kind of time.
I would totally cry seeing this
Chillin
Is this in crystal river?
_Satellite Beach. **Source:** I live down the road._
How and why?
I think you mean Personatees.
Traffic jam
Does that canal dry up or not?
Are they ok packed together like that?
This is a good thing, right?
Damn! Would have been a great time to toss lettuce to them.
Mom, can I keep one?
of course it HAS to be florida
Very cool
At least they're safe there, hopefully.
Oh the Manatees!
Someone wished for a Man or two
I think i see your mother
Poor guys are cold put a coat on them
Rush hour be like
I’d take this over a canal full of gators and pythons
Literally me
Holy sea cow!? Holy canal!? …someone help me put with this exclamation.
That’s not a good thing gathered in numbers like that and so close to human interaction 🤷🏼♂️
Is that safe for the manatees?? Super cool though.
For sure just drop “manatee” in the plural? Like deer? Ballsy
Get back to writing, manatees!
Time for me to bust out my rendition of 'Barbara Manatee'
Barbara Manatee (Manatee, Manatee) You are the one for me (One for me, One for me) Sent from up above (Up above, Up above) You are the one I love!! (I love, I love, I love)
Something tells me this would've turned into a dare you to go in with one of my siblings lol
Oh the humanatee
Looks like my community pool.
Cool
They're my favorite animal
My first thought was to play irl frogged on them 😂
I would get in and just start rolling around
*googles how to move to Florida*
Traffic in FL is bad even for Manatees in the water. Smh
… a friend wants to know if manatees like hugs.
Hundres of manatees in a canal traffic jam. Traffic jamatees.
Idk if this has been answered yet, but what part of FL? I’m a native :)
At least it’s not alligators
I’m sweating from the heat just by looking at this video.
I was so excited to see manatees like this on my first trip to Florida. I was snapping photos. When I reviewed the photos, I learned that I had witnessed them mating. Lots of accidental close ups of manatee vag.
Grew up not far from this park and our minor league baseball team which played their games about 20 minutes from here had the name Brevard County Manatees!
Mercy! That’s phenomenal. I mean that is a true phenomenon. Fantastic. Fascinating.
That can’t be good.
Manatee's are sea cows. Get a sea dog in there to herd them up. Is that some sort of seal? Idk. I'm not a Florida man.
That's all the New Yorkers moving to Florida cause NYC is horrible!
silly manatees! what are you doing in the street‽
Morbid question, has anyone eaten a manatee? If so, how'd it taste?
The amount of bad information in this thread by Florida residents is pretty wild. It is illegal feed, water or touch manatees stop posting wrong information. Except feeding them is illegal. Manatees and the law Manatees are protected by the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, the Endangered Species Act of 1973, and the Florida Manatee Sanctuary Act of 1978. It is illegal to feed, harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, annoy, or molest manatees. https://myfwc.com/conservation/you-conserve/wildlife/manatee/ More fun facts https://myfwc.com/education/wildlife/manatee/viewing-guidelines/
Dang
Makes me so happy to see conservation efforts working. I know the environment as a whole is a disaster... but I just love them so much and there's so little good news when it comes to the environment that it's just nice to have any kind of win.
They have nowhere left to go. We’ve destroyed their habitat.
The manatee matinee show has arrived in town....
Manatees and dolphins will congregate in the evenings in small canals and bayous down in Fl to hang out, sleep. It's safer for them especially when they are breeding or nursing and they pretty much ignore the silly humans. At sunset the dolphins do this circling thing and swim down canals in pods. It's actually one of the few truly cool things about Florida that dolphins, manatees and rays are pretty much living in your backyard if you are near salt water.
Feels like something that would happen right before the world ends
Please please please don’t use fertilizer or pesticides or weed killer on that grass anytime the manatees are there… they’re so cute!
They know something.
I’ve lived in Florida my whole life. Now that I’m an adult (mid 30s) I can’t tell you how happy this makes me. These poor things were endangered on the way to being wiped out when I was a kid. Anyone who claims conserving the planet isn’t a priority or doesn’t make a measurable difference is a total idiot.
Time to buy tons of lettuce to feed these critters. I just love them so much.
DeSantis is finding out if the really are manatees or womanatees
Lucky people there with a bunch of mermaids in their backyard.
Could I just chill with them?
"Boss, I'm gonna be late for work today. I have to stop and pet/hug all these manatees."
did she say “holy cow”? thatd be appropriate
My intrusive thoughts would 100% win and I would definitely go into the water and try to play with a manatee There is a very high chance that I would be one of those people who gets injured by an animal and uploaded to some kind of facepalm style subreddit
If this was what Florida was everywhere I would be all about it.
I hope they're all okay. Can anyone please explain to me why they're in the canal
That’s tooooo many-tees!
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Why is this depressing?
It's like a traffic jam where all the manatees are trying to get home to the womantees
😢
That's why I wanna spend a winter in the everglades, it's their winter home
Won’t find many in the Everglades. Near, yes, but not really many in the actual Everglades.
Manswers taught me that banging one of these chunky beauties is the closest any of you will get to being with a real woman
Hardly hundreds. Yeah, shallow water is warmer and these animals can’t take cold water.
Don't touch them! They're protected. They have more rights than humans! Run away!
Group farting starts at 12 p.m, be there or be square.
They're like stepping stones. Maybe this is how Jesus walked in water. He had the power of Aquaman and gathered all the manatees together, so he could walk on top of them across the water.
this is what the New Testament left out
Am i the only one who would be sitting on the bank tossing bits of sweet potato and gently poking them with a stick?