EditorialWayne Hartley, a 78-year-old manatee specialist with the Save the Manatee Club, at Blue Springs in Orange City, Fla. on Jan. 24, 2022, who has been counting the manatees since 1980. (Eve Edelheit/The New York Times)
EditorialWest Indian manatee, Trichechus manatus. (Round tailed manati) Vulnerable. Illustration copied from Thomas Pennant's figure of a specimen in the Leverian Museum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from "The Naturalist's Pocket Magazine," Harrison, Lond...
EditorialDawn Stanhope, president of the Boys & Girls Club of Manatee County, poses for a portrait in front of the club in Bradenton, Fla., on Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2021. (Octavio Jones/The New York Times)
EditorialManatee River at junction of Florida 64 and Florida 675, Manatee, Florida, United States, Gomphus dilatatus Rambur, 1842, Animalia, Arthropoda, Insecta, Odonata, Anisoptera, Gomphidae.
EditorialWest Indian manatee, Trichechus manatus. Vulnerable. (Manatu of the West Indies, Manatus.) Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H. Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from Robert Hamilton's Amphibious Carnivora, part of Sir William Jardine's Nat...
EditorialWest Indian manatee, Trichechus manatus. Vulnerable. (Manatu of the West Indies, Manatus.) Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H. Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from Robert Hamilton's Amphibious Carnivora, part of Sir William Jardine's Nat...
EditorialWest Indian manatee, Trichechus manatus. (Round tailed manati) Vulnerable. Illustration copied from Thomas Pennant's figure of a specimen in the Leverian Museum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from "The Naturalist's Pocket Magazine," Harrison, Lond...