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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Commemorating the life of a famous railroad conductor
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Dog days of summer
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Wild and beautiful Alaska
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Happy New Year!
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Happy Independence Day!
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Longer days mean warmer sand
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Midnight sun
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Cherry blossoms at the National Mall, Washington, DC
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Celebrating Norwegian Constitution Day
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Monet still makes an impression
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Happy birthday, Capitol Reef National Park
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Burrowing owls
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It s National Hispanic Heritage Month
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Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve in Costa Rica
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What are these creatures?
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Museum Night in Berlin
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It’s Napping Day
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The Kelpies statues in Falkirk, Scotland
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It s Coffee Day
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Heceta Head Light, Florence, Oregon
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Assembling the Smithsonian
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Make your way up a picturesque passageway of Chefchaouen
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Presidents Day
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National Roller Coaster Day
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Take the Stairs Day
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Art in the chapel
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International Zebra Day
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20 years later
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Sea Otter Awareness Week
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American Wetlands Month