Another Out-of-Place Manatee

Last August 2006, an out-of-place manatee showed up in the Hudson Valley, New York (remember Tappie?).

Then in October, one apparently swam up the Mississippi River to a harbor near Memphis, Tennessee. The Memphis manatee was found dead in December in a lake in the State of Mississippi. On January 4, 2007, the news was announced that the reason for the death of the Memphis manatee may never be known, as not enough tissue samples could be collected to discover the cause.

Perhaps the warm weather is disorienting manatees, as well as the blossoms coming out in New York City or people in shorts in Maine? Now comes along a January 2007 record of another out-of-place manatee.

The wayward manatee was being taken care of at the Texas State Aquarium’s Sea Lab, after being found near a clean warmer water outflow at a Citgo refinery. Wildlife officials said that it is the first time a manatee has been captured off the coast of Texas versus them being routinely found off Mexico and Florida.

Texas wildlife authorities noted that manatees, while rare off the Texas coast, have begun being spotted during the recent decade’s warmer weather. Two to four manatee sightings a year have occurred off the Coastal Bend waters durng the past six years.

An attempt will be made to transport the Texas-found manatee to Florida, after it regains its health.

Loren Coleman About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct). Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015. Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.

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