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Manatee A is Floyd
"Floyd half his tail missing a big dent in his
side"
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Manatee B is Lillith
"There
goes Lillith trying to hide from us--that's Lillith"
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Manatee C is Jim
"That's
Jim--he's got a bunch of cuts on his tail too, but nobody else
has that big white spot like that. Here you can see Jim's tail,
see those other cuts on it? The little white spot in the middle
of his tail is the remains of a skeg cut that accompanied the
propeller marks in the middle of the tail."
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Manatee
D is Calista
"That's Calista.. she's got that stuff on her nose--that's
probably from cold. That little white mark in the middle of
her back, see that very strange white mark on her right rear.
And then her tail--that's typical of cold weather and I think
that must be why she ended up in captivity. The cold weather
starts shutting down immune systems, so if they get something,
with us it would be like acne, it gets infected and just continues
to rot. The edges of their tail rots, the edges of their flippers
rot, and you'll see animals with white scarring in and around
their flippers on their flippers along their tail like that,
the tail looks like somebody dipped it in acid and its cold
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Manatee E is Africa
"That's
the one I mentioned earlier, Africa, the one that got hit since
November. She's got what I call Dragon's teeth, little triangles
left from a propeller, and those are old, got a big white spot
which I call the map of Africa although it doesn't really look
like Africa, and then she's got that series of new ones up on
her left shoulder and they look about what about 8" and
deep, and then we can't see it them from here but she's got
Pie shaped chops in her tail as well."
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Manatee F is Georgia
"Georgia...the
notorious Georgia. I had a lady describe that little white spot
closest to us right in the middle. She described that as a Christmas
tree--a little triangle kind of. And right up from that there
is a slash, and that's a white slash. Well, there's several
gray slashes that go with that. Now the two bigger white ones,
the long one across the body and there is another skeg slash
a lot of like Phyllis' over there to the left--in the middle
of her body--she got those this summer"
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