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Manatees and Dugongs! Things get more than a little gassy and silly as Paul and Donna talk about manatees and dugongs this week! Lettuce learn [...]

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Manatees and Dugongs! Things get more than a little gassy and silly as Paul and Donna talk about manatees and dugongs this week! Lettuce learn about some sea cows together! When water rises manatees can get stuck! The Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission is there to get them unstuck! Article courtesy of the Washington Post. The good guys to the rescue! What do manatees and dugongs have in common? They fart. A lot. For buoyancy of course. Also to make Paul and Donna laugh and laugh. Jeez Louise here’s some manatees cutting the cheese and that guarantees the ease with which they swim through the seas. Watch this video please! Courtesy of YouTube user Columbus Zoo and Aquarium: There are major differences between manatees and dugongs that aren’t so apparent until you look at them side by side! Articles courtesy of padi.com and oceanconservancy.org: These are manatees. They don’t look like there’s a lot going on upstairs but manatees and dugongs might be smarter than we give them credit for! Article courtesy of nytimes.com There are no manatee or dugong superheroes but you CAN go down to Florida and see them at any number of places in the wild or in captivity! Article courtesy of tripstodiscover.com There are rules. This isn’t ‘Nam. If you can’t make it to the waters off of north Australia anytime soon you can live vicariously through Jonathan Bird’s Blue World videos! Courtesy of YouTube user BlueWorldTV:   Is it a sea cow or a mermaid? Well we know the difference but did oldy times sailors? Articles courtesy of howstuffworks.com and ocean.si.edu   Now you know a little more about manatees and dugongs than you did this morning! What do you think of them? We want to hear from you! Send us your suggestions for animals you’d like to hear us talk about, or just drop us a line about anything at varmintspodcast@gmail.com! We might even read your email on the show. Your feedback is always welcome! Connect with your Varmints! hosts| Paul Csomo | Donna Hume | The Show | Pinterest  And a very special welcome to the more than 1,200 of you that gave us a like on our Facebook page. Holy cow! Thank you! We hope you like what you hear and we look forward to hearing from you soon! Unless otherwise noted all music is by Kevin McLeod and is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license. Additional music: “Hash Out” by Sunday at Slims was provided by Blue Dot Sessions under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license. Featured image “750_7137” by Jin Kemoole is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.0) license Additional image “Setting the net” by FWC Fish and Wildlife Research Institute is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.0) license All other images on the page are featured on the linked websites. Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. “Fair use” is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Screenshot this, send it to varmintspodcast at gmail dot org, tell us your favorite thing about this episode and get a coffee mug. About our voice actors: Kari McGinnis runs Blazing Caribou Studios and is a co-host on the podcasts Feast On History and Trivia Geeks Live. Chris Braaten runs the Podfix Network and is a co-host on More Gooder Than. Chris “Toph” Green is the host of the GravityBeard podcast. Curtis Craddock is the author of the novel An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors (The Risen Kingdoms, #1) Josh Hallmark runs the Our Americana network and hosts the podcasts Our Americana, The Karen and Ellen Letters, Playlist and True Crime Bullshit. Justine and Santiago are the hosts of the very funny Weird With You podcast. Fr

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Manatees and Dugongs! Things get more than a little gassy and silly as Paul and Donna talk about manatees and dugongs this week! Lettuce learn [...]
Duration
41:25
Publishing date
2019-10-02 21:01
Link
https://www.blazingcariboustudios.com/manatees-dugongs/
Contributors
  Paul Csomo
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https://www.blazingcariboustudios.com/podcast-download/9968/manatees-dugongs.mp3
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Manatees and Dugongs!

Things get more than a little gassy and silly as Paul and Donna talk about manatees and dugongs this week! Lettuce learn about some sea cows together!

When water rises manatees can get stuck! The Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission is there to get them unstuck! Article courtesy of the Washington Post.

The good guys to the rescue!

What do manatees and dugongs have in common? They fart. A lot. For buoyancy of course. Also to make Paul and Donna laugh and laugh.

Jeez Louise here’s some manatees cutting the cheese and that guarantees the ease with which they swim through the seas. Watch this video please! Courtesy of YouTube user Columbus Zoo and Aquarium:

There are major differences between manatees and dugongs that aren’t so apparent until you look at them side by side! Articles courtesy of padi.com and oceanconservancy.org:

These are manatees.

They don’t look like there’s a lot going on upstairs but manatees and dugongs might be smarter than we give them credit for! Article courtesy of nytimes.com

There are no manatee or dugong superheroes but you CAN go down to Florida and see them at any number of places in the wild or in captivity! Article courtesy of tripstodiscover.com

There are rules. This isn’t ‘Nam.

If you can’t make it to the waters off of north Australia anytime soon you can live vicariously through Jonathan Bird’s Blue World videos! Courtesy of YouTube user BlueWorldTV:

 

Is it a sea cow or a mermaid? Well we know the difference but did oldy times sailors? Articles courtesy of howstuffworks.com and ocean.si.edu

 

Now you know a little more about manatees and dugongs than you did this morning! What do you think of them? We want to hear from you! Send us your suggestions for animals you’d like to hear us talk about, or just drop us a line about anything at varmintspodcast@gmail.com! We might even read your email on the show.

Your feedback is always welcome!

Connect with your Varmints! hosts| Paul Csomo | Donna Hume | The Show | Pinterest 

And a very special welcome to the more than 1,200 of you that gave us a like on our Facebook page. Holy cow! Thank you! We hope you like what you hear and we look forward to hearing from you soon!

Unless otherwise noted all music is by Kevin McLeod and is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license.
Additional music: “Hash Out” by Sunday at Slims was provided by Blue Dot Sessions under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license.
Featured image “750_7137” by Jin Kemoole is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.0) license
Additional image “Setting the net” by FWC Fish and Wildlife Research Institute is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.0) license
All other images on the page are featured on the linked websites. Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. “Fair use” is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.
Screenshot this, send it to varmintspodcast at gmail dot org, tell us your favorite thing about this episode and get a coffee mug.
About our voice actors:
Kari McGinnis runs Blazing Caribou Studios and is a co-host on the podcasts Feast On History and Trivia Geeks Live.
Chris Braaten runs the Podfix Network and is a co-host on More Gooder Than.
Chris “Toph” Green is the host of the GravityBeard podcast.
Curtis Craddock is the author of the novel An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors (The Risen Kingdoms, #1)
Josh Hallmark runs the Our Americana network and hosts the podcasts Our Americana, The Karen and Ellen Letters, Playlist and True Crime Bullshit.
Justine and Santiago are the hosts of the very funny Weird With You podcast.
Frosty is the co-host of The Show with The Preshaah and Frosty,
and last but never least, Stacey from Rough Giraffe.