Baby manatee has been rescued and was transferred to Dolphin Discovery location
// June 4th, 2009 // View Comments // Locations, News, Riviera Maya
Last Thursday May 28th a baby manatee was found stranded at the Chabihaú marsh of Yucatan. The governor of the area was amazed by this unprecedented fact and called Profepa (Environmental Protection Ministry, as in Spanish) authorities to act immediately and save the creature from dying of starvation.
To examine baby manatee, Doctor Roberto Sánchez Okrucky was contacted immediately. He is Dolphin Discovery Veterinarians Manager, with 20 years of experience handling manatees and other marine mammals. Is well known that Dolphin Discovery is the world leader on handling and protecting these species, and besides having a wide experience on this kind of situations, we must remember that they saved and trained Daniel, the manatee.
Dr. Sánchez nursed baby manatee and he stated that the calf is perfectly healthy being a male of 1 meter long, 10 kg weight and 72 days old at the moment of the rescue.
The experts’ arrival was well seen by authorities, entrusting baby manatee’s custody and protection to Dolphin Discovery. Furthermore, the calf was transferred to the location of the company at Puerto Aventuras, Riviera Maya, where a family of 5 manatees welcomed him and one of the females adopted him as her very own.
They are 3 to 4.5 meters long, and 300-500 kg. They have a trowel shaped tail (different from dugongs), two pectoral fins with nails, a big body, a gray-brownish skin; they breath through nostrils as the seals, and have some funny whiskers on their snout.
