Special thanks to Save the Manatee Club staff members Wayne Hartley, Manatee Specialist, and Cora Berchem, Director of Multimedia and Manatee Research Associate, for their work to document the manatees this season and provide us with all the wonderful photos, video, and information. Watch videos from last season and highlights from previous seasons by going to our Webcam page. Several of the manatees featured are in our Adopt-A-Manatee® program. (All activities conducted under permit # MA791721-5.)
Do manatees yawn? We don’t know for sure, but Pat Rose, Save the Manatee Club’s Executive Director, captured what certainly looks like a yawn from a manatee on the webcam at Ellie Schiller Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park in late January.
Paddy Doyle was late for manatee “roll call” on a few occasions this season, but on one day he was the sole adoptee present. This photo is from January 29, 2020, and you can see his distinctive scar patterns.Nick first visited Blue Spring on November 19, 2019, and he was last spotted on March 10th. Here he is at the end of January.
We heard from our fellow researchers that Brutus, Flash, and Rocket were spotted at another spring this winter, so we were excited to see Brutus make several visits to Blue Spring in February 2020.“Sack Lunch” from the charming web comic “Man versus Manatee” by Rachel Arnow. Notice the manatee’s Save the Manatee Club logo lunch box at left and the otter’s fish lunch box at right. See more of Rachel’s manatee comics at mvsm.omnomzom.com or on her Facebook page. She puts out a new comic each “Manatee Monday.”