04-23-2024, 10:50 PM
I live in Florida and like our Amazonian friends south of us we get both dolphins and manatees. Appearance wise they most certainly fit the bill of manatees. You can compare them to any youtube video of manatees at the Big Bend power Plant cooling tower discharge channel. An entire nature center has been built around this channel because of all the cool stuff that shows up during the cold days.
I have not seen a group of manatees ever act like that, but then again I never seen a pod get disturbed. For all we know this was the alpha male and his sudden reaction simply triggered the others out of some defensive flight response.
As far as the video with the dolphins, if I am not mistaken I saw that on BBC Life and those dolphins only do that behavior down in Florida Bay. But I may be mistaken, it is just from memory. I should pop in the blu ray and find out.
I have not seen a group of manatees ever act like that, but then again I never seen a pod get disturbed. For all we know this was the alpha male and his sudden reaction simply triggered the others out of some defensive flight response.
As far as the video with the dolphins, if I am not mistaken I saw that on BBC Life and those dolphins only do that behavior down in Florida Bay. But I may be mistaken, it is just from memory. I should pop in the blu ray and find out.
