We’re in Florida’s Blue Spring State Park for Manatee Awareness Month. As winter approaches, Blue Spring becomes a safe harbor for manatees, aka sea cows, looking for warmer inland waters. It’s also a protected area for the manatees, where they can eat and swim without fear of injury from boats. In fact, researchers identify many of the manatees in Blue Spring by the scars they bear from accidental boat collisions and motor blade cuts. Identifying individual manatees has been crucial to tracking the population rebound of this once endangered species. A 2016 census of manatees in Florida’s springs counted 6,250 of the large, surprisingly graceful beasts.
Manatees rebound
Today in History
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Bridge of Hillsborough County
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Nesting season for the leatherbacks
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Birthplace of Roman emperors
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Holi festival
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National Lighthouse Day
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Let us introduce you…
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A grotesque scene
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Rock House in Hocking Hills State Park, Ohio
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Hidden beauty in Thailand
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Mid-Autumn Festival
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Arbor Day
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An icy extravaganza
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Acadia transformed
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The Girl Scouts celebrate 110 years
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Old man s whiskers growing wild
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Monarch butterflies, Pismo Beach, California
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Is that a buzzing sound?
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In the Navajo Nation for Code Talkers Day
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Groundhog Day
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Black grouses lekking
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World Bee Day
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Denali National Park
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Happy Hobbit Day
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In the Highlands for Saint Andrew s Day
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Diwali
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National Llama Day
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A seabird gets schooled
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Row, row, row your gondola
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Walking among the giants
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Pollinators: not to be sneezed at