Florida manatees are at a record high

Two years after Florida tallied a record number of manatee deaths, state biologists announced recently that they have documented a near stampede of wintering sea cows in recent months.

An annual state-wide survey, conducted over several days in February, counted a record high of 6,063 manatees in Florida waters. That’s about a thousand more manatees than the previous high counted in 2010 and a welcome turn after 2013’s 828 deaths.