Karen Latchana Kenney - Saving the Manatee

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Description: Pogo books edition. | Minneapolis, MN : Jump!, Inc., [2019] Series: Great animal comebacks Audience: Age 710. | Includes index. Identifiers: LCCN 2018036949 (print) LCCN 2018039025 (ebook) ISBN 9781641282895 (ebook) ISBN 9781641282888 (hardcover : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: ManateesConservation Juvenile literature. Classification: LCC QL737.S63 (ebook) LCC QL737.S63 K46 2019 (print) | DDC 599.55dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/20180369492 Editor: Jenna Trnka Designer: Anna Peterson Photo Credits: 33Karen33/iStock, cover, 10; Eric Baccega/Age Fotostock, 1, 2021; Wayne Lynch/Age Fotostock, 3, 67; Morales/Age Fotostock, 4; Getty, 5; National Geographic Image Collection/Alamy, 89; Brian J.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER LOSING THE
MANATEE A manatee floats. It is near the bottom
of Crystal River in Florida. Why?
Food grows here. snout It pulls plants toward its mouth with
its snout.

West Indian manatees have
grazed on plants here for centuries.
But they were once .

Native American tribes first
hunted manatees for food.
Then European settlers started
hunting them in the 1500s.
These large
swim slowly. They live in
shallow water. And they
come to the surface for
air. So they are easy to
catch. Many were hunted.

DID YOU KNOW? Manatees live in warm water.
Why? Cold water can kill them.
They do not have
to keep them warm.

There are three kinds of manatees.
West Indian manatees live by Florida.
Amazonian manatees live in the
Amazon River in South America.
West African manatees live in rivers
in Africa. TAKE A LOOK! West Indian manatees once lived in all of the Gulf of Mexico.
They lived along more of the U.S. East Coast. They also lived
farther down the coast of South America. Take a look at where
they live now.

NORTH
AMERICA SOUTH
AMERICA West Indian
manatee range Atlantic
Ocean Gulf of
Mexico

CHAPTER SAVING THE
MANATEE Manatees were hard to find by the
late 1800s. Florida passed a law in
1893. People needed a to hunt
or catch manatees. Starting in 1907,
hunters without permits paid a fine.
Or they went to jail. propeller This helped manatees.
Their grew.
But there was a new threat.
Powerboats. In the 1970s, scientists started
counting manatees. In the 1970s, scientists started
counting manatees.

How?
From above, in airplanes.
They found that just a few
hundred were left. Laws passed
in 1972 and 1973. One was
the Endangered
Act (ESA). Now no one
could hunt manatees.

radio tag But people were taking over their
. They were building
near the water.

Their boats
were harming manatees.
Florida passed another law.
It made it illegal to touch
or disturb manatees. Why?
They scare easily. Touching
them can make them move
to cold areas. The U.S. government
made a plan. To do what?
Better study manatees.
Scientists counted their
populations again.

They used
to track them, too.

Then the U.S. government
made a for them.
It is the Crystal River
National Wildlife Refuge
in Florida. People can watch
manatees. But they cannot
disturb them. DID YOU KNOW? Manatees are a
They are important
to their habitat.

Why?
They help keep it in
balance. Their behaviors tell