The Florida Manatee

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  • Опубликовано: 11 окт 2022
  • The Florida manatee is a conservation success story, with as few as 1,000 remaining in the wild just a few decades ago. Unfortunately, this docile, lovable marine mammal faces new threats. Learn more about the Florida manatee, and what we can do to conserve this species along with its fragile habitats.

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  • @MrSh4des
    @MrSh4des Год назад +91

    I wish the whole world was more concerned with wildlife preservation.

    • @kernwildlife
      @kernwildlife  Год назад +3

      Same here!

    • @nickysnaith943
      @nickysnaith943 Год назад +4

      Preserving animals and our earth is something humans should all do

    • @claregoldade
      @claregoldade Месяц назад +1

      I wish the whole world was more concerned with Human life

  • @lennarthagen3638
    @lennarthagen3638 Год назад +23

    Ugly? Wtf they are cute asf.

  • @Hornnnnnn
    @Hornnnnnn Год назад +20

    I just saw two of these beautiful animals just in front of me in the water here in florida. I had to learn more about them. Great video from a small channel, keep it up.

  • @JimBakkerBonus
    @JimBakkerBonus 6 месяцев назад +9

    What a beautiful Individual animal situation.

  • @dinomation
    @dinomation Год назад +20

    Some of my favorite aquatic creatures!

  • @analogueoverdigital929
    @analogueoverdigital929 4 месяца назад +5

    I love sea cows. They are adorable and swimming with them is so much fun. They really are so cute

  • @RealBHS
    @RealBHS Год назад +19

    It is NOT the only place where it is “legal” to swim with manatees in the wild. That is a lie spread by the tour boat operators to scare business their way. It’s the only place monitored by the FWC on a regular basis. The laws regarding swimming with manatees applies to the entire state, Crystal River gets no special treatment or privileges regarding manatee interaction.

  • @RJFP67
    @RJFP67 5 месяцев назад +3

    Those adorable flippers and the they way they use them to express themselves is precious.

  • @beyourself2444
    @beyourself2444 Год назад +9

    Manatees are the cutest

  • @dylanwalker8423
    @dylanwalker8423 10 месяцев назад +8

    This is my favorite animal, I live in Florida, and got to see them at I believe salt water springs. I've swam with them they're so derpy, and peaceful.

  • @missbeaussie
    @missbeaussie Год назад +7

    Commenting for manatee boost ❤ love from Australia

    • @emmac987
      @emmac987 Месяц назад

      Manatee boost!!!

  • @ApotropaicV
    @ApotropaicV Год назад +7

    This is one of the best wildlife videos that I’ve ever seen. Right balance of informative, fun, and responsible. ❤️ Manatee

  • @telluri5199
    @telluri5199 Год назад +11

    This is a great video, why isn't this guy famous

  • @YuliaGrushevskaya-bi6he
    @YuliaGrushevskaya-bi6he 8 часов назад

    Oh they are so sweet😊

  • @Brenilla
    @Brenilla Год назад +5

    I wish to pet, but alas I cannot, only observe

  • @GroundZer0Mike
    @GroundZer0Mike 3 месяца назад

    Learning about these beautiful creatures is amazing.

  • @miguelcarunchod.1493
    @miguelcarunchod.1493 Год назад +7

    I might expeculate one the main reasons of the lack of food is because the manatees no longer migrate on winter and instead stay next to electric power plants where the water is warmer but there are less grass available for them. Those lazy adorable buns.

  • @manatee_flips6811
    @manatee_flips6811 Год назад +8

    Ugly? I do declare, that’s offensive to me and my manatee faimily.

  • @gongalexander9361
    @gongalexander9361 Год назад +4

    cute!Just love it.

  • @theryanchannel1058
    @theryanchannel1058 4 месяца назад

    Blue Spring is a state park of the Save the Manatee club, a club you can join online and even adopt a manatee! I would know, it was my birthday present from my parents

  • @bigbigbigboybig
    @bigbigbigboybig Год назад +4

    Is it just me or is the mermaid at 5:15 a foxy minx? Her whiskery moustache and thick blubber have me flustered.

  • @camboidia
    @camboidia 2 месяца назад

    I love the Missouri manatee

  • @carries6427
    @carries6427 10 месяцев назад +4

    I’m amazed at the number of tourists who come here and don’t know what a manatee is! People were actually asking if they were dangerous 😂😂

  • @lportugueza2990
    @lportugueza2990 3 месяца назад

    Such adorable creatures 🥹 I wish they could be protected more 💝

  • @1beomgyu3
    @1beomgyu3 5 месяцев назад +2

    They’re not ugly:(

  • @TheDustmeister88
    @TheDustmeister88 2 месяца назад +1

    Brett Keane?

  • @YTonYahoo
    @YTonYahoo Год назад +2

    Cool

  • @oreganodog
    @oreganodog 2 месяца назад

    That looks like my homeless uncle when he gets beer.

  • @rezyvx
    @rezyvx 3 месяца назад

    i was swimming at siesta key florida and a manatee came swimming by me, although they are cute i have never swam so fast away

  • @fremyspeeddraw4326
    @fremyspeeddraw4326 7 месяцев назад +1

    Please sign a petition for Romeo the manatee that was left alone in Miami pool tank. His been there since 1957 all alone in a dirty tank. Pls help this poor guy pls sign a petition to free him. Give him freedom. Pls people find it. This creature is so gentle and Don't deserve this kind off treatment. 😭😭

  • @eltyo340
    @eltyo340 Год назад +2

    So why is the sea grass disappearing?

    • @HaloMediaRecords
      @HaloMediaRecords Год назад +4

      They feed on ocean’s grass and its changing due to climate😢

    • @thedohudson3836
      @thedohudson3836 Год назад +3

      Nooooo

    • @kernwildlife
      @kernwildlife  Год назад +2

      Algae blooms from nutrient run-off that comes from the mainland.

    • @jeffmarkus5052
      @jeffmarkus5052 Год назад

      @@kernwildlife Glyphosate AMPA is now a nutrient?

    • @christopherciolko2401
      @christopherciolko2401 Год назад

      Rising levels of ocean acidity across the plane. t oxygen levels, making it harder for under-water plant & animal life to continue thriving, and maintaining growth at historical levels. least Fossil fuel chemical pollutants, micro-plastics. Contributing to Climate change, and impacting ocean currents, temperatures

  • @dnart4850
    @dnart4850 Год назад +1

    漂亮

  • @yosmuc
    @yosmuc Год назад +7

    Only HUMAN is able to call other creatures “they are so ugly”….

  • @fremyspeeddraw4326
    @fremyspeeddraw4326 7 месяцев назад +1

    Oh pls can you help Romeo the manatee? Can you bring him here? His alone in a dirty pool tank 😭

  • @thatisaduck
    @thatisaduck Год назад +10

    these indivijuls need some mac and cheese sichuashun

    • @Buliwyf
      @Buliwyf 10 месяцев назад +1

      Make sure to check out their gaming channel game u love

    • @MoonPresence-fg8dn
      @MoonPresence-fg8dn 9 месяцев назад +4

      Get Dorn down to florida!!

    • @ozymandias1378
      @ozymandias1378 6 месяцев назад +1

      Hai again woolly :)

    • @thatisaduck
      @thatisaduck 6 месяцев назад +2

      @@ozymandias1378 what are you doing here

    • @ozymandias1378
      @ozymandias1378 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@thatisaduck uhhhhh.
      Playing elder scrolls ornline

  • @anoana7500
    @anoana7500 2 месяца назад

    Could be the chlorine

  • @NM2011CNBCTV18
    @NM2011CNBCTV18 Год назад +2

    is this an enclosed artificial body of water in which they are captive? or is this the wild?

    • @josephhalbohn8100
      @josephhalbohn8100 10 месяцев назад

      These are wild manatees I’m pretty sure this is Naples, Fl. It’s weird to think of coastal Florida as “the wild” 😂 but these aren’t in captivity.

    • @vast9467
      @vast9467 10 месяцев назад

      They’re wild, but there’s specific places that are conserved where boats can’t enter and manatees gather

  • @AleksandrStrizhevskiy
    @AleksandrStrizhevskiy 7 месяцев назад +1

    Can we milk the sea cows like we milk the land cows? Would incentivize us to keep them alive.

  • @eliseolopez2790
    @eliseolopez2790 5 месяцев назад +1

    I AM

  • @jackwt7340
    @jackwt7340 Год назад +2

    Did the ancestors of beavers look like this?🦫

  • @Fourintegerenthusiast
    @Fourintegerenthusiast 4 месяца назад

    this is me if you even care

  • @iJackson007
    @iJackson007 6 месяцев назад

    Go off ! 🤣

  • @jeffmarkus5052
    @jeffmarkus5052 Год назад +1

    check their mitochondria

  • @eliseolopez2790
    @eliseolopez2790 5 месяцев назад

    Leave your battle to me manatees

  • @christophercook723
    @christophercook723 Год назад

    It's Doe cile not Dicil😢

  • @raphatoon7895
    @raphatoon7895 9 месяцев назад

    O nome e peixe boi

  • @jkg6211
    @jkg6211 8 месяцев назад +2

    These are West Indian Manatee. There's no such thing as a "Florida Manatee", per se.
    Fun fact - it's not so much humans causing their problems... they're eating themselves into extinction... because unlike most grazers, they don't bite off the seagrass they eat (no front teeth), so they rip it out, roots and all. The grass takes longer to grow back again (sometimes years), and simply can't keep up with their voracious appetite.

    • @kernwildlife
      @kernwildlife  8 месяцев назад

      Gonna have to disagree, and go with my manatee biologist friends. The Florida manatee population is quite separated from the Antillean, the other West Indian sub species. You are right about their grazing habits, tooth structure, etc. but the collapse of our coastal sea grass beds lies squarely on elevated nutrient loads (due to human inputs) leading to algal blooms and turbid water.

    • @jkg6211
      @jkg6211 8 месяцев назад

      @@kernwildlife
      Yep.
      I'm going by what the Biologists are saying too - including what I see every day with my own eyes in my backyard.
      The Algae blooms are definitely caused by human induced nutrient runoff, but even that weren't the case, they're still eating themselves into extinction. The Seagrass simply can't keep up with their numbers and appetite.
      But every single Biologist and FWC Officer I know and have spoke with confirms - the critters living in my back yard and Mosquito Lagoon are indeed West Indian Manatees. They're not supposed to be this far north... Haulover Canal made that possible, and because of that passageway, they're basically an invasive species here in our Lagoon.
      So, I guess we can agree to disagree. Lol

    • @BrazlianBigChungus
      @BrazlianBigChungus 5 месяцев назад

      ​@jkg6211 You are completely right, manatees are not supposed to be present in North America, and are primarily found in the Caribbean rivers and the Amazon River.

    • @BrazlianBigChungus
      @BrazlianBigChungus 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@jkg6211 They must be the West Indian manatee, so they sure are invasive to Florida.

  • @AtticTapes14
    @AtticTapes14 11 месяцев назад +1

    Dugong

  • @ApotropaicV
    @ApotropaicV Год назад +2

    Save the mana-tee shirt.
    Also, they aren’t “ugly.”
    Look at those faces!

  • @sicsemper02
    @sicsemper02 2 месяца назад

    Also... there's no shortage of fucking sea grass in Florida.

  • @apersonfromaplace019
    @apersonfromaplace019 Месяц назад

    Degrees Fahrenheit😂