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Dead manatee found floating in Old Tampa Bay
By TIMES STAFF WRITER
Published October 12, 2006
TAMPA - Tampa police recovered a dead manatee from a canal near Old Tampa Bay on Wednesday afternoon. The manatee was floating in the water behind 5200 W Azeele St. and appeared to have been dead about 24 hours, Tampa police spokesman Larry McKinnon said. Officers with the Tampa police marine unit arrived at the scene after 4 p.m., tied the manatee to the side of a police boat and towed it to a boat ramp off the Gandy Bridge. The corpse was delivered to Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, where scientists will conduct tests to try to determine the cause of the mammal's death. Manatees, sometimes called sea cows, graze in both saltwater and freshwater. Though they have few natural enemies, they are considered by the World Conservation Union to be a vulnerable species largely due to habitat destruction, hunting and accidental collisions with motor boats.
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