Oh the huge manatee!

I know - this is not astronomy but I find it interesting and suddenly there is a lot of manatee-related news, so its going in.

Long story short - manatees, short-sighted but maybe surprisingly smart, though why a smart creature would go swimming in the Hudson or to Rhode Island I don't know.

Apologies to Skatje (PZ's daughter) for stealing bandwidth via the huge manatee pic I naughtily cross-linked to.