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Manatee On The Loose!

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Ilya may or may not look like this
Earlier this week NYMag reported on Ilya the manatee, "who traveled to Cape Cod this summer via New York Harbor," and ended up in New Jersey this past Friday. Ilya hasn't been spotted since, with the Marine Mammal Stranding Center unable to track her down. Today someone reported they saw the manatee off the coast of Bayonne, but the MMSC says the report came in 8 hours after the spotting, and Ilya is still nowhere to be found.

If they find the "sea cow," they will put him "in a heated saltwater tank where he
 can 
recover for a few days while the agency arranges his transport down to
 Florida, either by truck or Coast Guard plane." They say they're running out of time, so stay on alert Manatee lovers! Wonder if Ilya is related to the same Manatee spotted in the Hudson River a few years ago.

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Comments [rss]

  • militza

    I love manatees! they're gentle giants.

  • This sort of stuff always seems so magical to me. Whales in the river, manatees in the harbor...I'm a sucker for it!

  • NannyState

    Looks like Chris Christie's been skinny dipping again...

  • Aveais Essex
  • ckl

    Pick a dream, maybe lying in moonbeams

    Find abandoned rockets buried in space dust

    Sub-lunar sea

    Space manatee

    Singing to us

  • ckl

    is flying lost manatees home really the best use of money?

  • jibbly

    Too bad Conan probably won't have "horny manatee" back on his show.

  • gimme

    brooke hundley the tubby temptress is that you?

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