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Image description: In June, biologists at the Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute received a report of a manatee trapped in a retention pond system. The manatee swam over a spillway during high water associated with a tropical storm but could not swim out once the water receded. The manatee was rescued and the bottom photo shows the release in Pinellas County waters. Photo from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Image description: In June, biologists at the Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute received a report of a manatee trapped in a retention pond system. The manatee swam over a spillway during high water associated with a tropical storm but could not swim out once the water receded. The manatee was rescued and the bottom photo shows the release in Pinellas County waters. Photo from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

Image description: In June, biologists at the Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute received a report of a manatee trapped in a retention pond system. The manatee swam over a spillway during high water associated with a tropical storm but could not swim out once the water receded. The manatee was rescued and the bottom photo shows the release in Pinellas County waters.

Photo from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

November 27, 2012
Tagged: environment, animals,

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