Do Manatees control their buoyancy by farting?
Manatees are incredibly intelligent marine mammals who show long-term memory and associative learning skills on par with dolphins. They are thought to have inspired the myth of the mermaid. (In 1493, Christopher Columbus saw three “mermaids” — in actuality, manatees — while sailing near the Dominican Republic.) And the sea cows talk to each other while playing and during intimacy.
Butt here’s the kicker: There is scientific evidence to suggest that they regulate their underwater buoyancy — their ability to rise and fall in the water column — by farting.
Huh. Who knew?
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Who knew? Just about anyone who's spent any time around the big graceful things.
Now did you know that they are heading back to the path of extinction due to nuclear power? Or, really, the lack of nuclear power? Turkey Creek nuke plant's wastewater discharge canal has become the go-to spot for manatees to winter and get their groove on, so to speak. And the Biden regime signed orders for the deactivation of said Turkey Creek. Who knew the survival of the species is reliant on waste water?
Beans, the Manatee Viewing Center in Apollo Beach, FL is at a power plant, too. They swim out to feed and them come back in to warm back up. But really only in the winter.
The hue and cry was terrific. The warm water discharge at Diablo Canyon will murder the marine life, they said.
Not so many years later, the socialists at Fish&Game worry what will come of that rich marine world which blossomed in the outfall when the plant is decommissioned.
Nature adapts. One of Glens saving graces is he doesn't take himself seriously and laughs about fart jokes.
To add to Rick's comment, and the Blue and Gray whales come into the outflow to feed and warm up before spy hopping and heading up or down the coast... BTDT.
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