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Love in the Air as Mating Manatees Canoodle on Lauderdale Beach
Sun-Sentinel ^

Posted on 08/24/2015 2:27:01 AM PDT by nickcarraway

An evening ritual for one Fort Lauderdale resident took a remarkable turn Friday.

Bill Tudhunter, 57, was sitting on the back patio of his Fort Lauderdale home drinking a beer and enjoying the view of the Intracoastal Waterway, as he does every evening after work, when he noticed something odd in the water.

A group of nine manatees had come ashore behind the home in the 2100 block of Southeast 21st Street. In what could only be described as a dogpile, they rocked with the wake, apparently mating as they floated in a few feet of water.

A cluster of manatees appeared to be mating on the Fort Lauderdale shoreline Friday evening. Emily Miller, Sun Sentinel Unsure of what to do, Tudhunter alerted his wife, Yasmine, who called 911 as well as wildlife authorities.

Fort Lauderdale police monitored the manatees from the shore as well as from a police boat.

(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...


TOPICS: Local News; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: florida; floriduh; manatees

1 posted on 08/24/2015 2:27:02 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

I’ve lived in Florida for years, and have never gotten to see a manatee.....I’m jealous.


2 posted on 08/24/2015 2:43:04 AM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ann Archy

If you live in Dade Co. try Turkey Point power plant cooling canal or Black Creek further south. Used to see them both places.


3 posted on 08/24/2015 3:01:25 AM PDT by Vinnie
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To: Vinnie

Thanks.


4 posted on 08/24/2015 3:03:00 AM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: nickcarraway

Is that the origin of the word clusterf—k?


5 posted on 08/24/2015 3:42:50 AM PDT by WayneS (Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
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To: nickcarraway
Fort Lauderdale police monitored the manatees from the shore as well as from a police boat.

No arrests?

6 posted on 08/24/2015 3:43:57 AM PDT by WayneS (Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
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To: nickcarraway

Oh the huge mantatee!!


7 posted on 08/24/2015 3:51:15 AM PDT by Crim (Palin / West '16)
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To: nickcarraway

“Manatee Suzie and Manatee Sam
Do the jitterbug down in Manatee land
As they wriggle
Sue starts to giggle......
Looks like Manatee love....”


8 posted on 08/24/2015 3:54:13 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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Fort Lauderdale police monitored the manatees from the shore as well as from a police boat.

Perverts, all of 'em.

9 posted on 08/24/2015 4:00:08 AM PDT by Quality_Not_Quantity (Liars use facts when the truth doesn't suit their purposes.)
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To: WayneS

First time I heard the term canoodle was the Grease Man when he was the morning DJ at a Jacksonville AM radio station. He later revised that to Hobidigaga.


10 posted on 08/24/2015 4:12:21 AM PDT by mazda77
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To: nickcarraway

I think people have gotten the wrong Idea of what it means to “canoodle”

It was originally meant to describe having a whimsical conversation with others.


11 posted on 08/24/2015 4:27:33 AM PDT by Mr. K (If it is HilLIARy -vs- Jeb! then I am writing-in Palin/Cruz)
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Unsure of what to do, Tudhunter alerted his wife, Yasmine, who called 911 as well as wildlife authorities.

unsure of what to do? Why do anything?

12 posted on 08/24/2015 4:44:13 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Let us now try liberty)
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Unsure of what to do, Tudhunter alerted his wife, Yasmine, who called 911 as well as wildlife authorities.

unsure of what to do? Why do anything?

13 posted on 08/24/2015 4:44:13 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Let us now try liberty)
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Maybe he was unsure whether Florida has a law against manatees’ having sex in public.


14 posted on 08/24/2015 5:15:58 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("All the time live the truth with love in your heart." ~Fr. Ho Lung)
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To: blueunicorn6

Very low point in American culture: when Captain & Tennille
played ‘Muskrat Love’ for Queen Elizabeth at a White House Dinner (1976)

-JT


15 posted on 08/24/2015 6:27:53 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
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To: mazda77

Certainly, it wasn’t Sgt. Fury canoodling I hope...


16 posted on 08/24/2015 6:42:40 AM PDT by Hatteras
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To: Jamestown1630

That’s embarrassing even 40 years later.


17 posted on 08/24/2015 6:46:53 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Tijeras_Slim

That performance was surpassed when Obama gave the Queen copies of his speeches.


18 posted on 08/24/2015 7:10:44 AM PDT by Does so (SCOTUS Newbies Will Imperil America...)
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