VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. – More manatees have died in 2021 than all of last year and the majority of the deaths are in Central Florida.
Manatees are now moving from the locations where the animals stay warm for the winter, but with food scarce, not all are surviving. “They’re weak.
Some didn’t even get all the way to where they needed to get food before they died,” Biologist and Executive Director of the Save the Manatees club out of Maitland Patrick Rose said. [TRENDING: BOLO for these hairy caterpillars.
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