Posted: December 15, 2009 - 7:20am
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MIAMI — Ilya, the wayward manatee, is being released into the South Florida waters.
Ilya's release from the Miami Seaquarium is planned for this morning. The 1,300-pound sea cow has been undergoing rehabilitation there.
Ilya was flown south aboard a Coast Guard C-130 cargo plane after being rescued from a small waterway between northern New Jersey and Staten Island, N.Y.
He was huddling near an outfall pipe at a refinery to stay warm. The water temperature was 53 degrees — well below the 68 degrees manatees need to survive. Ilya has migrated in the summer as far north as Massachusetts in the last decade, but he dithered in New Jersey too long this year.Posted: December 15, 2009 - 7:20am
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MIAMI — Ilya, the wayward manatee, is being released into the South Florida waters.
Ilya's release from the Miami Seaquarium is planned for this morning. The 1,300-pound sea cow has been undergoing rehabilitation there.
Ilya was flown south aboard a Coast Guard C-130 cargo plane after being rescued from a small waterway between northern New Jersey and Staten Island, N.Y.
He was huddling near an outfall pipe at a refinery to stay warm. The water temperature was 53 degrees — well below the 68 degrees manatees need to survive. Ilya has migrated in the summer as far north as Massachusetts in the last decade, but he dithered in New Jersey too long this year.
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