Floridians are killing the state’s beloved manatees

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^ | November 26, 2021 | Tampa Bay Times

[piasa]

You know what manatees did before there was nice warm power plant effluent? They got pneumonia and died during cold snaps, with no one around to record the numbers that were killed.

[GOPJ]

Florida is evil. You liberals won't want to move here. Not only are we killing manatees, but we also have alligators, pythons, hurricanes, tornadoes, and, of course, spiders the size of dinner plates and hissing roaches the size of Bigfoot. You liberals have been warned.

Excellent Tolerance...

[piasa]

“...when it’s not so humid....”

Lololololollolololl...

[piasa]

Tell the prehistoric Indians that....

[piasa]

No, they were not brought here.

[piasa]

There is plenty of seagrass just off shore of where I live... Enough that the state now has opened a scallop diving season

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

No surprise, if true. It’s like the caribou congregating around the warm oil pipes in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge.

[piasa]

A lot of what they eat when they come up the rivers is invasive water hyacinth...

[piasa]

I live between a cypress swamp, a pine flatwoods, and a dry ridge that was once a sand dune....none are artificial, though there are two annoying invasive plant sspecies and fire ants that I wish no one had introduced.

[spacejunkie2001]

Rarely do manatees go in the ocean. It’s the intracpastal they’re destroying

[piasa]

Wrong...they are native, and were here long before we were.

[piasa]

Carolina Parakeets, wolves, and mountain lions.

[piasa]

The manatees are the ones not wearing yoga pants

[piasa]

The And lots power plant down here has an observation deck where they hung a freshwater hose to drip over the salt water where their warm water effluent goes out. The manatees come in droves during the cold snaps with calves and all to enjoy the warmth, and you can get close enough to see their whiskers when they come up to drink the fresh water.

[piasa]

The And was supposed to be The Anclote ppower plant before spellchecker got hold of it, lol.

[gundog]

The little tiny Haitian bastards were no picnic, either.

[FreedomPoster]

AKA permanent Dem voters, on that last.

[FreedomPoster]

I saw a manatee wearing yoga pants at Kroger yesterday. It was horrifying.

[ChildOfThe60s]

I suspect you are correct. The manatees have exceeded the natural limits of their habitat. The population has been growing for a number of years. It may well be that we are now seeing the results of too much success in protecting them.

We’ve seen that happen in so many places with different species, deer a good example. Then when they starve or suffer disease because of overpopulation relative to their habitat, the people who helped them over reproduce skirt any responsibility.

[marktwain]

Yes, indeed.
Those who push such policies are often unconcerned with real world results.