It’s possible that no one told Icecube the manatee that the 30th anniversary/5 millionth-visitor celebration at Tampa Electric’s Manatee Viewing Center isn’t until March 16. Then again, when you’re all healed up and ready to get straight outta manatee rehab hospital, why wait? That was the scene March 6 as Icecube took his place among the many honored guests at the center over the years who have arrived by U-Haul truck…
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Rocky Balboa comes to Tampa Electric’s Manatee Viewing Center
Like his fictional boxer namesake, Rocky Balboa – Florida manatee – is a fighter: rescued from Rocky Creek on Jan. 29 while suffering from cold stress, the 380-pound mammal regained his strength and health in a matter of days at Tampa’s Lowry Park Zoo. And on Feb. 9 he was back in the wild, with Tampa Electric’s Manatee Viewing Center his point of return. Officials with the Florida Fish and…
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Close encounters of the best kind as Tampa Electric’s Manatee Viewing Center welcomes six rehabilitated manatees back into the wild
Family sedans, minivans, SUVs and cars from all across America and Canada – hundreds of thousands of visitors come to Tampa Electric’s Manatee Viewing Center each year in vehicles of all kinds. A handful of visitors, meanwhile, come to the center in moving vans: manatees. On Jan. 28 and 29 they arrived again, the latest in what’s become an annual ritual that sees rehabilitated manatees released into the wild to…
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