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  • Blue Realm - Episode 11: Manatees and Dugongs in Danger
    Each year, hundreds of critically endangered manatees are killed in U.S. waters by boats, disease and cold weather. 2006 was the worst year on record for manatee deaths - 416 animals perished. With only a few thousand remaining in the wild, mostly in heavily developed Florida wetlands, the clock is ticking in efforts to save this amazing mammal from extinction.
    Another rare species and close relative of manatees is the dugong. Dugongs cling to survival in a few isolated corners of the globe. In marine sanctuaries in Abu Dhabi, the bizarre animals have been notoriously difficult to find, let alone photograph. Manatees and Dugongs features exclusive HD imagery of the mammals in the wild and examines efforts of scientists to protect the two species. The program also includes thrilling captures and field exams of manatees in Florida
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  • @burninghard
    @burninghard 3 роки тому +100

    If people are not even willing to slow down a bit with their boats in order to save a core species you know humanity is truely doomed.

    • @vex2960
      @vex2960 3 роки тому

      @First Last good excuse

    • @dem0nchild610
      @dem0nchild610 3 роки тому +6

      @First Last like us humans fully committed to destroying everything around us so we can have the newest things

    • @MarcellusJasonClay
      @MarcellusJasonClay 2 роки тому +13

      In my country, the back side of boats are equipped with some kind of wire grids to prevent boat propellers from injuring dugongs. Maybe the US should do the same for the manatees

    • @NicVandEmZ
      @NicVandEmZ Рік тому

      Just breed them with each other

    • @wilsonng7554
      @wilsonng7554 Місяць тому

      They are selfish, Manatees=Vulnerable, only few manatees in the world

  • @crazierthings3022
    @crazierthings3022 2 роки тому +15

    I love being a Floridian. I was swimming with these beautiful creatures before there was a market for it. They really are gentle giants. The manatees I used to swim with as a child would swim right up to you. They can be spooked but if you're quiet and don't make any sudden movements it's a truly amazing experience.

    • @wilsonng7554
      @wilsonng7554 Місяць тому

      a lot of boats are killing them

  • @laraetucker1614
    @laraetucker1614 2 роки тому +9

    When the dude said he's had people tell him "I never got to see dinosaurs so why should my kids get to see manatees"....that pissed me off more than it should have. I hope that guy responds with something like this: "did you ever get to meet your great grandparents? No? Well would you like to meet your own great grand kids? Yes? Then piss off and do something about it."

  • @Sweetwildflower
    @Sweetwildflower 3 роки тому +14

    Came for Dugongs AND more than HALF way through and NO mention. Thank you for sharing your work with Manatees.💕

    • @oogahd
      @oogahd 2 роки тому +1

      he literally said 'dugong' in the :28 mark. what do you mean?

    • @kalsven
      @kalsven Рік тому

      Even goes over the big differences between the 2 😆 someone wasn't listening

  • @oopopp
    @oopopp 2 роки тому +5

    0:14 I LOVE the way Manatees and Dugongs eat... lol

  • @fugitivetattoo
    @fugitivetattoo 3 роки тому +16

    Looks like those "biologists" completely traumatized that poor guy. That stress prob took years off his life.

  • @stephenlongstreet8305
    @stephenlongstreet8305 3 роки тому +15

    We have them here in Louisiana too. They swim from Florida staying close to shore then through Breton Sound into Lake Ponchartrain and finally into Lake Maurepas. Since shell dredging was halted in the 1970’s, water quality has been greatly improved and all marine life has benefited. If they decided to go the long way, they could swim up from the mouth of the Mississippi River and find nice warm water at 2 nuclear reactor sites; Waterford 3 and River Bend. They tend to hang out in mass during he winter months here habitually. Their population numbers would surely plummet if nuclear plants where to shut down for maintenance during very cold weather, because of their habits and because the next warm spot to swim to could be hundreds of miles away.

  • @kogabuu2657
    @kogabuu2657 3 роки тому +36

    I've been lucky enough to see a wild manatee. A truly amazing and beautiful creature

    • @lenardacejo7894
      @lenardacejo7894 3 роки тому +1

      The lumpy sea potato is indeed a beautiful site to see

  • @LittleBillysWorld
    @LittleBillysWorld 3 роки тому +10

    It could be the case they are harming the manatee. Trying to protect them does not mean that it is okay to harm it either

  • @nichochan8681
    @nichochan8681 2 роки тому +9

    I used to live near here in a place called Titusville. My mom's bf at the time would take his boat out and we'd see them and dolphins pretty frequently as they'd come up to surface. It was pretty epic, but sad to see all the scars on their backs. Even the calves had some scars and they don't have natural predators.

  • @adreabrooks11
    @adreabrooks11 3 роки тому +6

    9 minutes of dugong content in a 46-minute video... and I had been so excited... Still, it's nice to see *any* dugong coverage for a change!
    Also coulda done without that same munching sound effect every time they showed a creature (even the sea turtle) eating.

    • @PAULLONDEN
      @PAULLONDEN 2 роки тому

      Valid point about the dugong.......
      Although the greenery crunching sound might be because these creatures spend about 18 hours a day grazing ? 36:32 😏

    • @adreabrooks11
      @adreabrooks11 2 роки тому

      @@PAULLONDEN Nah. It's definitely a canned sound effect, being used repeatedly. Still, quality dugong footage is a rare treat. :)

    • @Immagiraffe101
      @Immagiraffe101 2 роки тому

      Lol I don’t know why that made me laugh. 💀

  • @stephansteohanlarsen7457
    @stephansteohanlarsen7457 2 роки тому +3

    Today is national Manatee Day... Let's give em props?

  • @shatnermohanty6678
    @shatnermohanty6678 2 роки тому +5

    30:14 size of Elephants ?
    They are smaller than Hippos .

    • @RainbowBoyChris
      @RainbowBoyChris 2 роки тому +2

      Manatees are look like hippopotamuses 🦛

  • @cristallewis6125
    @cristallewis6125 3 роки тому +7

    all of the Manatees are so cute

  • @thewonthatloss227
    @thewonthatloss227 3 роки тому +20

    Oh snap its an evolved seal. Dewgong

    • @shatnermohanty6678
      @shatnermohanty6678 2 роки тому +2

      Oh no , it's just an Elephant left in the water for too long 😁

    • @philipmendisco6656
      @philipmendisco6656 2 роки тому +2

      My family used to harvest manatees by the thousands . they cut off the flippers so they cant swim away. Then my grandpa and his friends would grind up the manatee bodies so they would have fresh meat to feed the pitbulls and Rottweilers in the barn that they use for fighting

  • @kristina7065
    @kristina7065 2 роки тому +1

    the capturing, chipping and sampling had me traumatized, can’t imagine how the animals felt.
    Imagine suddenly weighing x5 your weight out of water and losing a toe for science.

  • @12outland12
    @12outland12 3 роки тому +4

    Looks like Brett's doing well

  • @krissmaboragaysofficials6370
    @krissmaboragaysofficials6370 3 роки тому +6

    Ph have this "Dugong" or Sea Cow The word "dugong" derives from the Visayan dialect dugung in Philippines.

  • @kalsven
    @kalsven Рік тому +1

    Beautiful animals! 😃

  • @ascent8487
    @ascent8487 3 роки тому +4

    I was wondering why multiple babies were chewing on their mamas arms. Lol.

  • @PAULLONDEN
    @PAULLONDEN 2 роки тому

    Fascinating .

  • @anonymouspunk9968
    @anonymouspunk9968 2 роки тому +2

    This film was made in 2008. It is right now 2022. It was made 14 years ago. I heard a radio broadcast a few months ago saying there is some kind of run off or pollution of some kind from maybe plants that tread and release water that is causing algae blooms. Those are killing all the sea grasses they eat. They were forced to feed them to keep them from a mass starvation event. The algae are clouding up the water, so sunlight wasn't reaching where the sea grasses normally grow. Photosynthesis isn't possible anymore due to less light getting through. I guess perhaps fertilizers or something similar is getting into the water. They said to fix it would cost billions of dollars, with a b, and take something like 10-20 years to solve the problem.

  • @miles689
    @miles689 Рік тому +1

    the lack of dugongs in this video is so upsetting :(

  • @genive129
    @genive129 2 роки тому +3

    Fun fact: Back then Dugongs used to be mistaken for mermaids.

  • @okaybye75
    @okaybye75 3 роки тому +3

    Here we are a year later and it's getting worse 2 week's ago over 700 have died just sad . hope we can find a solution before it's too late.

  • @gepard3728
    @gepard3728 3 роки тому +2

    Manatee caretaking...

  • @stevelucky7579
    @stevelucky7579 3 роки тому +4

    Wait hold up is that master chief

  • @Edward4Plantagenet
    @Edward4Plantagenet 2 роки тому +2

    Gulf of Mannar between Shrilankan & India has Dugong population.

    • @shatnermohanty6678
      @shatnermohanty6678 2 роки тому +2

      India's first Dugong reserve is to be established in Tamil Nadu

  • @frankpalacio4403
    @frankpalacio4403 Рік тому +1

    One kept swimming in the Houston ship channel area around the neighborhood Magnolia in East Houston Texas.... It was said when they rescued the animal he still swam back to Houston around the ship channel back in the neighborhood they named it Macario Garcia like the street by the Bayou

  • @allisonbowie7778
    @allisonbowie7778 3 роки тому +6

    Honey that's NOT the size of an elephant 😂😂...also it's weird how they keep saying "the animal" lol

    • @angeliewebb5105
      @angeliewebb5105 3 роки тому +3

      I couldn’t stop thinking and noticing that throughout the entire documentary 😂😂😂. It’s not where close to the size of an elephant mate, stop saying that. They’re such beautiful animals though and what they’re doing to help them is commendable.

    • @shatnermohanty6678
      @shatnermohanty6678 2 роки тому +2

      Someone told them that they are related to Elephants and that has been playing in their minds 😄

  • @allanmaruhom4453
    @allanmaruhom4453 2 роки тому +1

    ❤️👍

  • @michaelworkman4057
    @michaelworkman4057 Рік тому +1

    You're right and we can develop better propellors and sensors/systems that allow us to coexist better or we could get rid of propellors altogether I mean why are we obsessed with external propellors? Put them in a toob that way is sawfter maybe 🤔

  • @stevenhall8964
    @stevenhall8964 3 роки тому +2

    There are also Manatees in West Africa, and in the North Pacific and Stellars Sea and Artic Ocean between Canada, Alaska and Siberia/Russia the largest member of this family the Stellars Sea Cow was hunted to extinction in the 16 and 1700's by the turn of the 19th century (1800's) they were no more.

  • @afrikainfo-doku
    @afrikainfo-doku 4 роки тому +2

    Amazing video. it's Great. Let's Be UA-cam friends?😀👍

  • @joeyd4364
    @joeyd4364 3 роки тому +3

    Outstanding presentation! Very informative and professional.

  • @L_E_L_0_U_P
    @L_E_L_0_U_P 3 роки тому +2

    Whenever I think of manatees, I think of Miss Choksondik.

  • @commandershepardmessiah3345
    @commandershepardmessiah3345 3 роки тому +2

    Wow someone really said "well me and my kids weren't able to see dinosaurs why should we care now" and I would've said firstly dinosaurs died millions of years before homo sapiens were even a thing, secondly I would've shown animals like the mega fauna of the ice age one of those being the Stellers sea cow a giant relative of manatees and dugongs we made extinct. That's why

  • @sriyanperera6607
    @sriyanperera6607 2 роки тому +1

    Dugong- A close relative of the Manatee.

  • @savannahdockins6361
    @savannahdockins6361 3 роки тому

    One year out from this video and they are more vulnerable now than ever due to red tides and loss of habitats.

  • @sriyanperera6607
    @sriyanperera6607 2 роки тому +1

    Dugongs and their close Relatives the Manatees are both the same. Because they are called Sea Cows and they belong in the family of Sirenians.

  • @luisangeldrosnegron3445
    @luisangeldrosnegron3445 2 місяці тому

    Its so sad that of the just handful of wild animals that are gentle and non aggressive towards humans or in this case nobody and can live a very long life with no natural predators, except of course ourselves smh....😮 We cant sacrifice something as small as not going too fast on your boat on certain waterways for these lovely humble animals is very frustrating

  • @dumuzi9662
    @dumuzi9662 3 роки тому

    Congratulations. Your dry docked a Manatee.

  • @Rocio1988
    @Rocio1988 Рік тому +2

    Hope all the best for conservation these beautiful and gentile manatees and dugons, two species that are critical endanger and we can save them. 🦭🦭

  • @jodo7814
    @jodo7814 Рік тому

    Nothing like gang tackling and dog piling an animal to communicate that “safety and longevity of your species” is in mind.

  • @TinTin-xi6kc
    @TinTin-xi6kc 5 місяців тому +1

    It felt like we are the aliens and the manatee is the human being abducted

  • @pedro1234567ify
    @pedro1234567ify 3 роки тому +8

    isn't it crazy that they're often referred to as "sea cows," but they are farther related to cows, since their closest relative is a trunk-wielding land animal? 😂

    • @stephenlongstreet8305
      @stephenlongstreet8305 3 роки тому

      Yea, and how would you milk a sea cow? Still, I wouldn’t mind taking a sip; low-fat and pasteurized of course!

    • @Lilly-vz2un
      @Lilly-vz2un 3 роки тому

      Sea elephants

    • @shatnermohanty6678
      @shatnermohanty6678 2 роки тому

      @@stephenlongstreet8305
      Luke Skywalker in Last Jedi drinking milk from a Manatee like creature 😉

  • @user-wl8rr7wb4y
    @user-wl8rr7wb4y 7 місяців тому

    How about building speed boats with recessed or interior propellers instead. How about that as a moderate compromise. It should satisfy all parties involved.

  • @emily91303
    @emily91303 Рік тому

    Snootito in Orlando. 🌴

  • @juriaanoussoren
    @juriaanoussoren 2 роки тому +1

    A elephant you can train to walk over here.....please send this guy to afrika to show him how you train a wild elephant and give him his medicine thing

  • @jenjoseph5064
    @jenjoseph5064 Рік тому

    These are my staffy dogs long lost ancestors.

  • @stephansteohanlarsen7457
    @stephansteohanlarsen7457 2 роки тому +1

    Reminds national wildlife marlin Perkins.... just catching stressing animals. Out Tucson Arizona Sonoran desert 🏜️ Jah rastafari

  • @veronicazawodniak9412
    @veronicazawodniak9412 3 роки тому +3

    We need to help all of God’s creatures...

    • @chlorone
      @chlorone 3 роки тому +2

      a) there is no god
      b) we dont need to help them we have to leave them alone and stop killing animals
      c) what we need is to give them their living habitats back

  • @amandastakeonit7402
    @amandastakeonit7402 2 роки тому +1

    Florida needs to step up and be more morally responsible! They need to make boating around manatees illegal. No more moving to the areas near the water. The people are greedy and selfish!!

    • @amandastakeonit7402
      @amandastakeonit7402 2 роки тому +2

      How about paddle boats only!!! Rafts?! Even wooden boats...come on Florida!!!

  • @willsalazarramirez5139
    @willsalazarramirez5139 Рік тому

    CHICLAYO PERU 🇵🇪

  • @mx._dobro-spec
    @mx._dobro-spec 3 роки тому +6

    Humans need to stop attacking manatees and their families

    • @its_ezralol
      @its_ezralol 3 роки тому +3

      It’s accidental.When they have algae all over their back they kinda blend in.

  • @jamesdixon2857
    @jamesdixon2857 Рік тому

    Slow down till in the ocean then go , we can sacrifice a little and it's not giving up much

  • @naiyalexic
    @naiyalexic 2 роки тому +1

    They need seagrass... they're starving to death. We have to help them.

  • @MrLotrecht
    @MrLotrecht Рік тому

    I do not understand why are the boots not buildet saver for animals ? There must be just a cage around the propeller and it would not be so bad when it came to an crash between the animals and boats!

  • @stephaniebernard5439
    @stephaniebernard5439 Рік тому +1

    wont they band speed boats in that river and have row boats

  • @shanesmith9820
    @shanesmith9820 3 роки тому +1

    Are they related to seals??

  • @K4YSTR547
    @K4YSTR547 3 роки тому

    Anyone got a song list for this video?

  • @djcrazy2685
    @djcrazy2685 3 роки тому +1

    think about this wat if wild animals wanted to catch us n document our health do u think humans would like that, probably not!!

  • @ethanol77
    @ethanol77 Рік тому

    *says iceberg lettuce is "green water" proceeds to cut up 50 heads of lettuce*

  • @raymyself8934
    @raymyself8934 2 роки тому +1

    No its not like that examining manatees and rescue i know a marine biologist do good more like that they not using net. They just see examine and collect data water and more and manatees not injured like that im doubting if they intent. I want to become a ecologist i graduate philosophy...

  • @albertafarmer8638
    @albertafarmer8638 Рік тому +3

    2:56 they are GOD'S creatures.

  • @jackiemoore9634
    @jackiemoore9634 3 роки тому +1

    Came here for the Dugong's and didn't get any till 35 minutes into the video

  • @breAnnasmama
    @breAnnasmama 3 роки тому +5

    They look so weird. The dugong is just gross looking with all that Jazz going on with its mouth when it eats. They’re cute in their own way but remind me of some ugly sea rabbit .. if this would let me post a pic. Of an example I would. I rescued one that had this face that i just can’t begin to describe effectively haha !! But that thing reminded me of it right off. Ughhh. Creepy looking things. Yet they’re so cool and it’s sad they’re just dwindling down. But typical of people to wait til things are Way too out of balance to resolve things thru likely contributed to or caused in the first place. So annoying

  • @deaftodd
    @deaftodd 3 роки тому +6

    Still really disturbs me about someone who wrote TRUMP on the manatee.

  • @thejc-chan1902
    @thejc-chan1902 2 роки тому +1

    😢you’re making them suffer with your research.

  • @kwacou4279
    @kwacou4279 Рік тому +1

    if Cali & N.Y. wasn't so screwed up, due to who they vote for, poor Florida wouldn't be flooded with thousands moving there a year. Save the manatees, don't move to Florida, fix your politics.

  • @allisonbowie7778
    @allisonbowie7778 3 роки тому +1

    I don't like the dugongs name lol

  • @arisjin2049
    @arisjin2049 2 роки тому

    Fu thhyhhyyuuuuhu

  • @jermainemcintosh9351
    @jermainemcintosh9351 3 роки тому +2

    Let god and nature do it’s work.. not doctors and researchers

    • @P_steez
      @P_steez 3 роки тому +1

      Agreed, this seemed needless

    • @chlorone
      @chlorone 3 роки тому

      theres no god, and mankind is working hard everyday to destroy every bit of natures creations. its just a matter of time till mankind turned this beautifull planet into another mars or venus

    • @P_steez
      @P_steez 3 роки тому +4

      @@chlorone “let god and nature do it’s work” is a common saying, no need to insult people’s beliefs to say that mankind is destroying our ecosystems.

    • @Newenglandlocal
      @Newenglandlocal 3 роки тому

      Except god isnt saving these manatees, science is.

    • @Newenglandlocal
      @Newenglandlocal 3 роки тому +1

      You obviously have no idea how to conserve and rehabilitate animals

  • @sanderslongdrive
    @sanderslongdrive Рік тому +1

    These 'researchers' need to leave these creatures alone and get a life.

  • @philipmendisco6656
    @philipmendisco6656 2 роки тому

    Fun fact. The flippers of immature and baby manatee are highly prized for their exotic, tender meat and also used in erectile disfunction medications. Care must be taken when using gardening clippers during the removal of the flippers. Clippers can cause infection if not wiped off every so often

    • @noblepuma6033
      @noblepuma6033 2 роки тому

      Troll lol
      Go to your basement and cry now cuz none cares

  • @alexraymonson2802
    @alexraymonson2802 2 роки тому

    This dont feel like a documentary this looks like some bull