Floridians are killing the state’s beloved manatees

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^ | November 26, 2021 | Tampa Bay Times

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Florida is evil. You liberals won't want to move here. Not only are we killing manatees, but we also have alligators, pythons, hurricanes, tornadoes, and, of course, spiders the size of dinner plates and hissing roaches the size of Bigfoot. You liberals have been warned.

[LIConFem]

Oh, the huge manatee!

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Mebbe the Tampa Bay Times should move to Maryland.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

[ComputerGuy]

My condo has a waiting list.

[marktwain]

So, the manatee population is exceeding the carrying capacity of its habitat...

And it is all the caused by man.

Looks like there needs to be a hunting season...

[HighSierra5]

I think Florida is a beautiful state. I’d like to visit when it’s not so humid though. I can’t take humidity. I worked in Texas back in 83 and it was bad. For me anyway. I love the high altitude and dry cool air.

[556x45]

O I thought this article was going to blame it on the unvaxed or global warming. Pollution is so yesterday.

[BobL]

“I think Florida is a beautiful state. I’d like to visit when it’s not so humid though. I can’t take humidity. I worked in Texas back in 83 and it was bad.”

Me too. I think Texas is a dump (along with McDonald’s and Walmart).

[marktwain]

A 2003 study estimated the carrying capacity of Florida, for Manatees, to be about 5000.

[Bringbackthedraft]

Worrying about a non native species? Weren’t they brought here from South America? Now we have Nile lizards, Anaconda’s Iguanas, an assortment of tropical fishes, lion fishes from the pacific, frogs and toads from God knows where, ducks from Mexico, + others. Its all uncontrollable, like our immigration. And now we are being invaded by a west coast critter named Pelosi. The Manatees aren’t endangered, its the Floridians that are.

[Gay State Conservative]

Cue the “Oh,the huge manatee” photo!

[USAF1985]

I hear the manatees taste like chicken.

[Pete Dovgan]

It’s a sea grass shortage!!
I am serious. The population has recovered, but the care of the inland waterways has not. They don’t have the food supply to support the increased numbers. They have eaten all the sea grass, and now they are starving.

We need to ‘recover’ the tidal rivers here from 100 years of misuse.

[chiller]

If by “pollution” they mean ag fertilizer run off, they may be right. Maybe.

What’s the latest ? Last I heard ag runoff was being blamed for red tide algae blooms. DeSantis had commissioned studies.

Red tide depletes oxygen which kills fish. Sea weed, too ?...and on the east coast ? I was unaware of a manatee population outside of the gulf side of Florida

Facts needed, I suspect.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The manatee is not native to Florida...

[V_TWIN]

You forgot the mosquitoes bro.....the size of bald eagles

[FreedomPoster]

I would assume there are plenty on the Atlantic side. I once saw a manatee in the waters near Charleston, so they range at least that far north.

[spacejunkie2001]

Manatees are destroying Florida. There is no grass left for fish to lay eggs in so the fish population is being decimated

[Graybeard58]

A manatee can eat 100 pounds of food in a day, according to the University of Florida

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Sounds like my three sons when they were teen agers.