Kobee Manatee® Climate Change and The Great Blue Hole Hazard! Announcing the Fourth Installment in the Award-Winning Kobee Manatee® Children’s Educational Picture Book Series! Kobee Manatee Climate Change and The Great Blue Hole Hazard – Will be Released on September 28, 2021 (Lexile Measure: 790L) Greetings to you! In this blog, I’ll be talking about my…
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission have reported that, “There have been more than 750 manatee deaths in Florida since January 2021.” Greetings to you! In this blog, I continue talking about how Florida is on track to set a new sobering record for manatee deaths this year. There have been more than 750…
Greetings! We all know that nasty itch from a mosquito bite, along with the possibility of the pesky inscet injecting a disease such as West Nile Virus. With that said, can a mosquito bite a manatee and possibly give it West Nile Virus? Absolutely! Mosquitoes which transmit diseases such as West Nile don’t just bite humans, horses or…
Greetings! Here is part 2 of my Marvelous Manatee Facts for you! Now take a look at another 11 fascinating facts all about us manatees… Manatees are Marine Mammals Manatees and dugongs are marine mammals. Marine means we live our entire life in the water and mammal means we breathe air just like humans breathe air. And in…
A Note on COVID 19 – Walt Disney World Resort has plans to welcome guests back to its theme parks as part of a “phased reopening beginning July 11, 2020” pending state approval. Greetings! Did you know there are manatees living at Walt Disney World Resort? Absolutely! And the very cool thing about this, you can get…
Greetings! Here are some more awesome manatee facts for you. Florida Manatees, (yours truly :-)) actually belong to the order Sirenia and are a subspecies of the West Indian manatee. The other subspecies of the West Indian manatee is called the Antillean manatee. The United States is the only country where you’ll find the Florida manatee. And since some…
Greetings! Okay – I thought I would continue my manatee trivia for you in the format of a question and answer, true or false. So here is the eight installment. I know you will really impress your friends and family with your newfound manatee knowledge! This time, I’m talking about my first cousin, the Antillean manatee.…
Greetings! Here is the sixth 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. I’ll continue the manatee trivia in the form of the Q&A session, which seems to work great! Here it is……
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…
