“Tonight, gentle giants gone wild!”
What? Oh. It’s just the South Florida TV station WSVN reporting on manatees spotted mating close to the shores of Hollywood Beach, to the soundtrack of “Wild Thing” and “Let’s Get It On.”
Local news is fun.
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You never get tired of watching a manatee smush its nose against the glass of its tank, right? Good. Here ye go.
There’s some manatee schnoz action in this video from Central Florida News 13 taken at SeaWorld. From the related article:
SeaWorld Animal Care Specialists were given a late Christmas present – a 10-foot-long, 1,000-pound male manatee, delivered by Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission late Monday.
The manatee was rescued from southwest Okeechobee, and is suffering from cold stress.
SeaWorld animal experts said he’s quite lethargic. They are tubing him twice daily – first with water to keep him hydrated, and just today switched to a light gruel filled with calories to fatten him up.
The manatee didn’t appear to be sick or injured, she said.MANATEE RESCUE!!!
It apparently just swam into shallow waters and then got stranded there when the tide went out, she said.
“We don’t swim very fast. That’s why many of us get run over by speedboats!”DON’T RUN OVER MANATEES, JESUS CHRIST.
