The Florida manatee, a subspecies of the West Indian manatee, is a large, slow-moving marine mammal with an elongated, round body and paddle-shaped flippers and tail. Manatees are …
The Florida manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris), a subspecies of the West Indian manatee found only in the southeastern United States (Domning & Hayek, 1986; Lefebvre et al., 2001), …
Sep 21, 2011 · To change the status of Florida manatees under the Endangered Species Act, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) must assess the severity of existing and foreseeable …
Apr 5, 2017 · The 2006 review concluded that both Florida manatees and Antillean manatees (the other subspecies of West Indian Manatee) were stable or increasing throughout most of their …
Florida Manatee Presentation for the Marine Mammal Commission 2015 Annual Meeting Leslie Ward-Geiger, Marine Mammal Research Program Leader Florida Fish and Wildlife …
Sep 4, 2015 · Instances of manatee harassment have been a particular problem in Kings Bay, where multiple warm-water springs form a mile wide body of warm clear water that attracts …
474 MARINE MAMMAL SCIENCE, VOL. 22, NO. 2, 2006 Figure 1. Study area and location of manatee carcasses killed by watercraft and recovered in Sykes Creek and the Barge Canal in …
The Florida manatee, Trichechus manatus latirostris, is a subspecies of West Indian manatee that occurs almost exclusively in the southeastern United States at the northern limit of the species’ …
First statewide abundance estimate of the Florida manatee • A primary conservation goal of the MMP plan was to “implement peer-reviewed and statistically sound methods to estimate the …
Florida Manatee Stock(s) As noted in the section entitled “Stock Definition and Geographic Range,” past studies of Florida manatees have identified four relatively discrete regional …