Save This!

According to Florida State annual Manatee census, conducted every November, Manatee populations are down again. As one may recall, the species, which has never engendered a large population, was endangered as of the late 1970s. Since the imposition of rigorous protection and restrictions on boating throughout their designated habitat, their population has tripled. While the Eco-Friends work to eradicate land cows at the Hall of Justice and save the Ozone from their harmful methane exhaust, they've successfully saved the beloved sea cows, or have they? According to the 2008 census, a record number of deaths was recorded off the Florida coast.

Has the protection slackened? Are cruel boating enthusiasts chopping them to bits (which again, is only acceptable to do to land cows, then called 'steaks')? No. The reason for their sudden decline is that the manatees have run out of food. Their population has grown too large to sustain itself and they've eaten themselves out of house and home. There were no autopsies required for the emaciated bodies which washed ashore. Either Mother Nature really wants these gentle giants to stay rare, or maybe, just maybe, disrupting the course of nature and prohibiting the natural selection they're fighting so hard to teach in schools (though prohibiting from applying in schools) is not the answer. As the manatees now starve to death in record number one wonders, will there be a movement to save the sea grass that now is apparently in short supply?