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Ivan

Sex

Male

Date Tagged

01/26/99 and 01/06/00

Place Tagged

Homosassa River
Background He is the now-weaned calf of Dmitra, a manatee from Florida's west coast that also was followed by Journey North last year. Both Ivan and Dmitra were tagged in the Homosassa River on 26 Jan 1999. Scientists first met them in Feb 1998, wintering in the warm spring waters of Crystal River. Ivan was probably born in the summer of 1997.

When we last left off, Ivan's tag had stopped transmitting on 13 Feb 1999, which Susan and Jim determined to be due to a boat strike to the transmitter housing. Dmitra and Ivan were seen together through the winter of 1999. The last visual sighting of them together was on 4/12/99. Dmitra was seen on 5/10, without Ivan, so he was weaned sometime between 4/12 and 5/10! Ivan returned to the Homosassa River in Dec 1999 as a "first year independent", dragging his second boat-struck transmitter. Jim was able to remove the damaged transmitter and replace it with a new one on 6 Jan 2000. He is fine!

Satellite Locations January 6 - Present
(Courtesy of the Florida Caribbean Science Center - Sirenia Project)

Date

Latitude(N)

Longitude (W)

01/06/00

28.800N

82.596W

01/10/00

28.799N

82.597W

01/18/00

28.800N

82.589W

01/24/00

28.797N

82.588W

01/28/00

28.798N

82.602W

02/04/00

28.800N

82.606W

02/05/00 

28.799N

82.606W 

02/11/00

28.801N

82.583W

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