Manatee communication includes a range of vocalizations such as chirps, whistles, squeaks, and grunts. While not loud, these vocalizations play important roles for breeding, alerting others of danger, and keeping track of one another. It is also believed that manatees can identify and distinguish one another based on their chirps and bark. The manatee team at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium can hear several different clicks and whistles underwater when they scuba dive to maintain the manatees’ hab

Upside down Manatee holding on to a clear boat, and snorting. This manatee spent a long time checking out the clear catamaran and looking up through it. He snorted a couple of times as well. Manatees have a number of different vocalizations, most of them can only be heard underwater and sound like squeaks. . . #animals #nature #wildlife #manatee #seethroughcanoe #florida #stpetersburgflorida #fortdesoto #shellkey #tierraverde #naturephotography #ocean #sea #encounters #boating #kayaking #clearbo

Manatee swimming at full speed and leaving a large wave. Manatees can move surprisingly fast when they want to. They can get very rowdy when they gather in mating herds like you see in this video. . . #manatee #amazing #nature #awesome #stpete #florida #animals #sealife #outdoors #boating #kayaking #manatees #ocean #tampabay #sea #wildlife #naturephotography #animallovers #natgeo Nat Geo Wild | See Through Canoe

HUGE congratulations to Information Outreach’s Casey Zempel and Amanda Hengst who each won a First Place Blue Pencil and Gold Screen award, recognizing superior government communication products and those who produce them. Their contributions rank Manatee County top among the approximately 90 local, county, state, tribal and federal agencies recognized for excellence in government communications in this 2022 international awards program. Amanda’s first-place award was in the Print Calendar categ