On Dec 8, 10:58*am, wrote:
On Wed, 8 Dec 2010 05:13:08 -0800 (PST), Tim
wrote:

http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/...tor/2010/12/co...

This article points out that of the 668 manatee deaths last year, only
68 were boat related. When you consider that any manatee with recent
injuries that look like a boat strike are put in that column, no
matter what the real cause of death was, *it is really not a huge
number. The other thing they have figured out is Manatee are not
particularly rare and certainly not "endangered".

i wonder if those figures reflect all four classes of 'em. Not
counting their cousins the Dugong?