2 manatees rescued after Irma drains Florida bay

ABC ^ | September 11, 2017 | Karma Allen

[C19fan]

Florida rescue workers and a group of residents helped save two manatees who were left stranded on Sunday after Hurricane Irma caused water to drain from the Sarasota Bay.

Michael Sechler, who shared images of the beached animals on Facebook, said he noticed them suffering while he and a group of friends were driving near the bay in Manatee County.

[relictele]

It’s interesting to note that the ‘Don’t Disturb Nature’ crowd absolutely sprint headlong to disturb that same nature when nature takes its course.

[silverleaf]

Let me be the first to say glad they rescued the hugh manatees from a series situation

They are great humanateerians

[relictele]

FTA: Another Facebook user, Marcelo Clavijo, later said that he and two Manatee County Sheriff’s deputies helped move the manatees about 100 yards closer to the water. Nadia Gordon, marine mammal biologist with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, said his office has received several reports of stranded manatees in the county, but it isn’t intervening. “We’re not actually intervening at this point,” Gordon told the local newspaper Bradenton Herald. “Unfortunately with manatees, they are accustomed to being tidally stranded at times.” However, he said the commission is worried that the manatees could end up in areas where they naturally wouldn’t once the tide comes back, but he doesn’t think they will get injured. “We just let nature take its course,” Gordon said.

So officialdom may in fact be acting in accordance with its remit but virtue signaling third parties are intervening.

[Red Badger]

[allendale]

Some people would rescue their pets before a neighbor’s child.

[Bartholomew Roberts]

That’s a walrus, but I’m sure manatees shrug the same way.

[LukeL]

No Oh the Huge Manatee pic?

[SargeK]

He is the walrus. Koo koo ka choo.

[mwilli20]

“One wasn't moving, the other was breathing and had water in its eyes,”

Sigh!

[laweeks]

I’m more concerned about how many babies were saved because the abortuaries had to be closed.

[publius911]

TWO manatees rescued after Irma drains Florida bay

THERE SHE IS...!!!
HILLARY SPOTTED!!

[al_c]

Ask, and you shall receive ...

[trebb]

Are manatees good eating?

[dfwgator]

TV crew saves baby birds from Hurricane Irma

http://cbs12.com/news/local/tv-crew-saves-baby-birds-from-hurricane

[VietVet876]

Those two sea cows could feed dozens of hungry hurricane victims. Recipes online dating back to the ‘50’s.

[Magnum44]

Expert textpert choking smokers

Don't you think the joker laughs at you?

And by the way, though I have always heard it as "Koo koo ka choo", I thinks the lyrics are actually "goo goo goo joob". :/

For good job maybe?

[Roman_War_Criminal]

And those same people have no problem killing their own child, but god forbid a dog or cat drowns.

[SargeK]

I’ll go with your interpretation.

[Magnum44]

The Beatles made breakthrough music, but they were smoking some powerful stuff to come up with a lot of the lyrics.