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The manatee is on the endangered species list. Of all the known causes of manatee mortality, man himself is responsible for half the deaths of these gentle beasts. The single greatest known cause of their deaths are man operating boats and barges.
To a manatee a speeding boat is more hazardous then disease, weather, alligators or poachers. Many manatees are killed every year by power boat propellers and collisions. The docile slow moving manatees have difficulty avoiding speeding boats.
A single boats propeller blades can slice open a manatee's thick hide leaving it wounded for bleeding to death, disease or to be brutally attacked by hungry alligators.
Man the operator of these boats can not see these docile mammals when speeding on the waterways and the manatee can not move out of the way fast enough to save themselves from being ripped to shreds. The manatee is on the endangered species list. Of all the known causes of manatee mortality, man himself is responsible for half the deaths of these gentle beasts. The single greatest known cause of their deaths are man operating boats and barges.
To a manatee a speeding boat is more hazardous then disease, weather, alligators or poachers. Many manatees are killed every year by power boat propellers and collisions. The docile slow moving manatees have difficulty avoiding speeding boats.
A single boats propeller blades can slice open a manatee's thick hide leaving it wounded for bleeding to death, disease or to be brutally attacked by hungry alligators.
Man the operator of these boats can not see these docile mammals when speeding on the waterways and the manatee can not move out of the way fast enough to save themselves from being ripped to shreds.
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