What is the range of the manatees?
Manatees are found throughout rivers, springs, and shallow coastal waters of Florida and nearby states. Manatees have been seen as far west as Texas and as far north as Virginia. Though they like to stay near warm waters, adventurous ones such as Chessie, a manatee tagged with a satellite transmitter, was tracked all the way to Chesapeake Bay in 1994. Scientists feared he would not make it back to Florida before the cold weather approached, so they flew him home by plane. The next summer, he journeyed to Rhode Island and returned on his own to the Ft. Lauderdale area. In 1996, he headed north again, losing his transmitter in North Carolina.
