Florida’s youngest manati died last year with a record number. Probably, after many years of birth among the Great Manate hunger Amine, it may be a sign that the gap of sea cows has been slowly recovering.
According to state statistics, 154 young Florida Manati died in 2024, including more than half of the 100 manati, who died in Brevard County, in 2024.
The so -called “perinatal” manati’s death was 27 % of the 565 manati’s death last year, an increase of almost 60 % of 91 perinatal deaths in 2023.
According to Florida Fish and the Wild Biological Protection Committee’s statistics, the previous record of the death of perinatal manity in Florida was 129 in 2013 (15.5 % of the overall death).
Why is this happening?
It is uncertain why so many young manati is dying. It is also unclear when many people have been investigated (179 last year). Because they have been disassembled, not recovered, or for other reasons.
However, the FWC stated last year that the FWC has been gathering from the corpse since 2023, and outdoor observation expecting a state biologist to increase the number of small deaths and stillbirth cows in 2024.
Sudden increase in perinatal death last year -The science JU referee has not yet appeared, but the loss of seaweed may probably have a two -year manity hunger amine in the Indian River Lagoon area. 。 FWC biologists warned about the long -term health effects of the next generation of manity on the long -term health. However, it may also be a sign that Manati’s reproduction has returned slowly after deciding for many years amine during the hunger amine.
Brevard is the most
Brevard had the most perinatal death in 2024 and the overall death, which is not unusual for the vast spread of the ragoon Manatee seaweed. However, chronic algae bloomed over the past 15 years, killing most of the seaweed.
The 55 BREVARD’s 55 manati deaths were “perinatal periods.” Next was Volusia County, 27 of the 58 deaths and 14 out of 85 deaths.
How has the perinatal death in 2024 compared to the past few years?
Compared to the following:
2023: 91 perinatal deaths -16 % of the death of 555 people, 2022: 71 perinatal death -800 deaths of total death -perinatal death -record 1,100 deaths. . 5 years average: 90 perinatal death -12 % of the average Manate death of 739 people. In comparison, the ship’s collision died in the same five years, and an average of 99 (13 %) manati was killed.
How many Manatei died from another cause in 2024?
According to preliminary statistics, the death of 565 manati last year contained 96 by ship. 17 Flood Gate/Rock. 10 Causes of “other human”. 154 perinatal death; 13 cold stress; 57 Natural death; 179 Not nectaries. The rest was undecided.
In 2021, there were 1,100 manati deaths, especially in the lagoon of the Indian River, causing a hunger death due to a loss of seaweed.
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