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
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A day of service for Dr. King
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National Hispanic Heritage Month
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International Archaeology Day
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All hail the king of shrubs
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Uredd Rest Area, Norway
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A winter wonderland in Northeast China
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Southern gemsbok in the savannah, Botswana
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The meeting point of the winds
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A wild, craggy corner of the United States
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Composite image of a lunar eclipse
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Belize Barrier Reef
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Bobbio, Italy
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Duck, duck. duck, duck, duck...
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Loud waters
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World Turtle Day
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Borrego Badlands
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Daintree Rainforest and Noah Beach, Queensland, Australia
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Kirkjufell, Iceland
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Bellissima!
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Happy trees = Clean air
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Leap day
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Protecting endangered giants
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International Day of the Tropics
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In the Most Serene Republic
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Aurora borealis
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Patriot Day
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Vinh Hy Bay, Vietnam
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Deep in the North Woods wetlands
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Corfe gets creepy