✨MANATEE RELEASE✨ Yesterday, Dolphin Research Center’s (DRC) Manatee Rescue Team, in partnership with SeaWorld Orlando and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), successfully released a rehabilitated mother manatee and her calf at John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park in Key Largo, Florida. The mother manatee, named Stripes, and her calf, Argyle, were originally rescued by Dolphin Research Center after Stripes was found suffering from a severe fishing line entanglement aroun

DONATE: dolphins.org Dolphin Research Center (DRC) successfully rescued a young manatee calf in Marathon, Florida, following a complex, multi-hour operation that required extraordinary care to protect both the calf and its mother. The rescue team was alerted to a manatee calf that had a fan belt tightly wrapped around its body. While the calf was still mobile, the belt posed a serious and growing threat. As the animal continued to grow, the constricting material would have caused severe injuries

Support our Manatee Rescue Team https://interland3.donorperfect.net/weblink/weblink.aspx?name=E331449&id=22 On this Manatee Appreciation Day, we want to highlight the work Dolphin Research Center does for these amazing marine mammals. For more than three decades, we have responded to countless of these animals when they are in trouble. Manatees can face many challenges from food scarcity and starvation to entanglement and boat strikes. Dolphin Research Center is the only state and federal licens