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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2016 4:50:46 GMT
Manatees disappeared from the West Indies decades ago, but the world's first ever reintroduction programme for manatees began this week in Guadeloupe. Fifteen manatees are going to be imported from zoos around the world to a special protected habitat in Guadeloupe where it is hoped that they will reproduce. The first two manatees have begun their journey... from Singapore. Singapore manatees en-route to the Caribbean River Safari sends two manatees to the Carribean for international breeding programmeThe video in the second link shows what a complicated operation it is to transport a manatee anywhere, but of course anybody who has ever seen a manatee has already figured that out.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 9, 2016 14:54:02 GMT
Wouldn't it have been a million times simpler to get them from Florida? Is there more than one kind of manatee?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2016 15:25:17 GMT
There are 13 more manatees scheduled to come from other places. However, since they appear to be "zoo surplus" animals, there might not be any from Florida, since I think that just about all of them live in freedom there.
The article said that this first group was supposed to be manatees used to living in contact with humans. It is their offspring which might have the chance to go free.
(I think I read somewhere that there are 3 different species of manatee.)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2016 5:45:30 GMT
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