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A Florida resident captured the聽 death of a on video, which can be viewed . Lance Irvine, the owner of a boat and jet ski rental company in , thought he was about to witness the animal giving birth, but instead he watched the half-ton sea cow cross its flippers and pass away.
According to the , the manatee had been hit by a boat and suffered injuries including broken ribs and organ damage. Watercraft collisions have caused approximately one quarter of all manatee deaths since 1974, according to the .
To read more about manatees, check out “My Son, The Manatee” from the May 2000 issue of 国产吃瓜黑料. W. Hodding Carter goes in search of his adopted manatee鈥攐nly to discover the injustices heaped upon these slow, fat and endangered marine mammals.
–Whitney Dreier