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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------080701000103030000040409 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (from this morning's Chr.nicle Her.ald: Massive manatee sighted in unfamiliar waters By The Associated Press NEW YORK -- In the heat of summer, all sorts of tourists head north to cooler climes. This year, a manatee has joined the crowd, cruising past the nightclubs of Manhattan and continuing north. The massive animal has been spotted in the Hudson River at least three times in the last week; first off the Chelsea and Harlem sections of Manhattan, then to the north in Sleepy Hollow in Westchester County. "It was gigantic," said Randy Shull, who said he spotted the unusual visitor Sunday afternoon while boating at Kingsland Point Park in Sleepy Hollow. "When we saw it surface, its back was just mammoth." Last month, trackers saw the manatee as it swam north, first near Delaware, then Maryland, then New Jersey. By Saturday, it was seen in Manhattan. Kim Durham, rescue program director for the Riverhead Foundation, a nonprofit group devoted to marine mammals, called it a "bona fide" sighting, but there isn't photographic proof. It is unusual for one of the creatures, often associated with the warm waters of Florida, to travel so far north, although they have been reported along the shores of Long Island and even Rhode Island. Manatees are an endangered marine mammal. Florida wildlife experts counted 3,116 in their annual survey in February. John Vargo, the publisher of Boating on the Hudson magazine, said his alert about the sightings was met with disbelief by some boaters. "Some were laughing about it, because it couldn't possibly be true," he said. "I'm 70 years old, and I've been on the river my entire life," Vargo said. "I've seen dolphins and everything else, but never a manatee." 'Some were laughing about it, because it couldn't possibly be true.' --------------080701000103030000040409 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <font class="Content_Headlines-links">(from this morning's Chr.nicle Her.ald:<br> <br> Massive manatee sighted in unfamiliar waters</font><br> <br> By The Associated Press <p><font class="Content_body-links">NEW YORK — In the heat of summer, all sorts of tourists head north to cooler climes. This year, a manatee has joined the crowd, cruising past the nightclubs of Manhattan and continuing north.</font></p> <p><font class="Content_body-links">The massive animal has been spotted in the Hudson River at least three times in the last week; first off the Chelsea and Harlem sections of Manhattan, then to the north in Sleepy Hollow in Westchester County.</font></p> <p><font class="Content_body-links">"It was gigantic," said Randy Shull, who said he spotted the unusual visitor Sunday afternoon while boating at Kingsland Point Park in Sleepy Hollow. "When we saw it surface, its back was just mammoth."</font></p> <p><font class="Content_body-links">Last month, trackers saw the manatee as it swam north, first near Delaware, then Maryland, then New Jersey. By Saturday, it was seen in Manhattan.</font></p> <p><font class="Content_body-links">Kim Durham, rescue program director for the Riverhead Foundation, a nonprofit group devoted to marine mammals, called it a "bona fide" sighting, but there isn’t photographic proof.</font></p> <p><font class="Content_body-links">It is unusual for one of the creatures, often associated with the warm waters of Florida, to travel so far north, although they have been reported along the shores of Long Island and even Rhode Island.</font></p> <p><font class="Content_body-links">Manatees are an endangered marine mammal. Florida wildlife experts counted 3,116 in their annual survey in February.</font></p> <p><font class="Content_body-links">John Vargo, the publisher of Boating on the Hudson magazine, said his alert about the sightings was met with disbelief by some boaters.</font></p> <p><font class="Content_body-links">"Some were laughing about it, because it couldn’t possibly be true," he said.</font></p> <p><font class="Content_body-links">"I’m 70 years old, and I’ve been on the river my entire life," Vargo said. "I’ve seen dolphins and everything else, but never a manatee."</font></p> <p><font class="Content_body-links"> </font></p> <bq><block></block></bq> <p><font class="Content_body-links">’Some were laughing about it, because it couldn’t possibly be true.’</font></p> </body> </html> --------------080701000103030000040409--
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