Injured manatees in Homosassa Springs, Florida

[kedigato]

Manatees that have been so badly injured in the wild and cannot survive, find a new home here in the warm waters of Homosassa Springs (always a steady 72°F) in Florida, where they are taken care of and healed as far as is possible.

The rare few that do have a chance to be released back into the wild, are transferred to the Lowry Park Zoo in Tampa, Florida. There are facilities here to get them ready to be taken back to their home waters. Two were actually released over the past couple of weeks.

The following video shows a manatee that has lost it's sense of balance, due to being hit by the propellers of a careless driver of a sport boat. This is one of the major causes of injury. It's lungs, being near the surface of its skin, are so damaged that it can't breathe properly and so keeps turning.

[DAG]

Thanks for that informative info. kedi, and it's nice to see that there are establishments that take care of Manatees in that way, shame though that humans seem to have caused their problems in the first place!

[linda]

its such a shame kedi, yet these manatees live near places were speedboats are in usa and i think the problems always going to be there

[nazimundo]

Thank goodness there are people who will care for injured animals in this way, it makes me mad to think how some people can be both cruel and senseless towards animals.

Thanks for sharing

Alfie

[kedigato]

We went up to Homosassis Springs again today to show our guests the manatees. I took lots of pics and did some videos, here is the first video.

[kedigato]

This pic was taken by Karina, a friend of ours who visited us.

It is a brilliant shot, just like the manatee was posing for her to take it's photo.

Well done, Karina.

[DAG]

Yes, a brilliant shot indeed!