Manatees enjoy KSC warm waters

"Jacques van Oene" wrote in message
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Amber Marek
June 18, 2004
Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
(Phone: 321/867-2468)

PHOTO RELEASE: P01-04

MANATEES ENJOY KENNEDY SPACE CENTER'S WARM WATERS

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - LIFE IS GREAT! At the mouth of Banana Creek
at Kennedy Space Center, a baby manatee seems to be smiling as it floats
on
its back nestled between two adults. Manatees live in Florida's
warm-water
rivers and inland springs. The Florida manatee feeds on more than 60
varieties of grasses and plants. Manatee cows give birth about once every
three years. Gestation lasts about 12 months. KSC shares a boundary with
the
Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, which encompasses 92,000 acres
that
are a habitat for more than 331 species of birds, 31 mammals, 117 fishes,
and 65 amphibians and reptiles.

For more information about the wildlife at KSC please call 321/867-2468.


A complete gallery of NASA Kennedy Space Center photos are available at:
http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/index.cfm

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Jacques :-)

www.spacepatches.info

How sweet Jacques, I was born and lived all my life on Merritt Island. I
remember herds of Manatees that took a hour to go by... I'm talking
thousands..... Ain't progress wonderful???? I'm not sayinf F'U I'm saying
slow the ****ing boats down........... Going 65mph may make some asshole
feel good but it's hard on Manatee's..... And I have a boat that will 70,
but I don't and never will.................


T3

In article , "T3" writes:
How sweet Jacques, I was born and lived all my life on Merritt Island. I
remember herds of Manatees that took a hour to go by... I'm talking
thousands..... Ain't progress wonderful???? I'm not sayinf F'U I'm saying
slow the ****ing boats down........... Going 65mph may make some asshole
feel good but it's hard on Manatee's..... And I have a boat that will 70,
but I don't and never will.................

I went down to see the launch of STS-37 because a friend of mine was on the
crew. While waiting for the launch we saw both manatees and dolphins swim
past us. My wife recalls a dolphin sticking its head up just as Atlantis
lifted off, as if to say "the stupid humans are at it again"...

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