Greetings! Here is the fifth installment of awesome manatee facts for you. It’s worth repeating that we manatees are very large marine mammals with two flippers and a body tapering down to a paddle-shaped tail. Okay, it’s time to test your manatee knowledge… True or false: Manatees continually replace their teeth, which also happen to…
Greetings! It’s that time of year again when we travel over the river and through the woods. Or in my case, over the reef and through the seagrass! As we get together with family and friends and celebrate all the wonderful things we’re thankful for. Thanksgiving – celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November in the United…
Greetings! It’s time for continuing my blog on more manatee trivia for you. So here is the fourth installment. The feedback I’m getting is that you like the question and answer formant! It’s worth repeating that we manatees are very large marine mammals with two flippers and a body tapering down to a paddle-shaped tail. Ok…
Greetings! In this blog, I would like to talk about the history of Manatee Awareness Month! It was back in 2005, when the state of Florida declared November would be the month to make people aware of not only manatees, but also large aquatic mammals living near the Florida coast. Namely, the warm coastal waters of the Atlantic…
Greetings! Today I thought it would be great in continuing my blog on some really cool manatee facts for you. You’ll definitely impress your friends and family with your newfound manatee knowledge! Once again, manatees are very large marine mammals with two flippers and a body tapering down to a paddle-shaped tail. Ok – here’s…
Greetings! Today I bring you the second installment of some really cool manatee facts for you. You’ll definitely impress your friends and family with your newfound manatee knowledge! Manatees are very large marine mammals with two flippers and a body tapering down to a paddle-shaped tail. Ok – let’s put together some cool manatee trivia…
Greetings! You’ve probably read some of my previous blogs on the rare and unique Florida manatee (yours truly). Well I thought it would be fun if I created a series of manatee fact challenges to test your manatee knowledge! This blog contains Manatee Facts Challenge 1. Just select your answer from each of the four choices under the…
Greetings! I have some rather sobering news for you concerning the serious issue of human-caused climate change. According to a new landmark report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), “Glaciers and ice sheets from the Himalayas to Antarctica are rapidly melting. And the fisheries that feed millions of people are shrinking.” There were more than 100 scientists from…
Greetings! What would you say if I told you that the nudibranch is a rather high-class fashion model roaming around in our seas? What? Well it’s true! This is how famed National Geographic photographer David Doubilet described nudibranchs. Okay – now what-in-the-world is a nudibranch? A nudibranch (pronounced NEW-dee-bronk), is a soft-bodied, shell-less marine mollusk or sea slug. Their…
Greetings! I have some more sobering news for you on the subject of climate change. CNN meteorologist Chad Myers has been a skeptic of climate change for years. Myers was convinced that the “earth would reach a greenhouse gas equilibrium where the ocean and plant life would absorb the excess CO2 that humans produced.” Than in 2013 – reports that Myers…
