MERRITT ISLAND, Fla. – Scientists say Florida’s most enamored marine mammal is starving to death, News 6 partner Florida Today reports.
On a recent Saturday, the Stasiks witnessed the famine in real time along the banks of Manatee Cove Park. The paradise they once padded through in this remote, mangrove-lined cove now looks lost — like an elephant graveyard.
Except it’s manatee bones that litter the shoreline, not tusks. [TRENDING: Video: Arrest of Naked Cowboy at Bike Week | 36,000 Fla.
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