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Those are not rocks you see in this beautiful turquoise water. They aren’t fish either; as incredible as it sounds, those are manatees.
At Blue Spring State Park in Florida, rangers and wildlife biologists have been bowled over by the number of manatees coming into the park’s warm and shallow lagoons to wait out the winter.
The park has been a refuge for the animals against sudden cold snaps for decades, and it’s tradition for rangers to take a “manatee count” every winter. This year the numbers were higher than ever before, with no morning being more memorable than January 21.
On that day, 932 manatees were found throughout the lagoons, 200 more than the highest previously recorded “aggregation,” which is the term for a group of manatees.
Despite their large rotund bodies reminiscent of seals and walruses, manatees have just 1 inch of fat, and can’t survive in water that’s colder than 68°F indefinitely, according to Smithsonian’sChristian Thorsberg.
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At Blue Spring State Park in Florida, rangers and wildlife biologists have been bowled over by the number of manatees coming into the park’s warm and shallow lagoons to wait out the winter.
The park has been a refuge for the animals against sudden cold snaps for decades, and it’s tradition for rangers to take a “manatee count” every winter. This year the numbers were higher than ever before, with no morning being more memorable than January 21.
On that day, 932 manatees were found throughout the lagoons, 200 more than the highest previously recorded “aggregation,” which is the term for a group of manatees.
Despite their large rotund bodies reminiscent of seals and walruses, manatees have just 1 inch of fat, and can’t survive in water that’s colder than 68°F indefinitely, according to Smithsonian’sChristian Thorsberg.
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1,000 Manatees Converge on Florida State Park to Keep Warm in Record-Breaking Sighting
The park has been a refuge against sudden cold snaps for decades, and it's tradition for rangers to take a "manatee count" every winter.
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