{"id":195577,"date":"2025-06-18T22:56:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T22:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/195577\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T22:56:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T22:56:06","slug":"manatee-sneaks-up-on-wading-man-moment-he-spots-it-is-priceless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/195577\/","title":{"rendered":"Manatee sneaks up on wading man; moment he spots it is priceless"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>A man wading in the water off a beach near Clearwater, Florida, was totally oblivious to a curious manatee that swam up next to him and sat motionless for a good 20 seconds before being noticed.<\/p>\n<p>And when the unsuspecting man did spot the manatee, he wasted little time in reacting in a panic. He bolted to his left, and the startled manatee swam off to its right.<\/p>\n<p>Michael McCarthy, owner of the See Through Canoe Company, posted video of the recent encounter on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jJkF46oI0S8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis guy had a moment of serious panic but fortunately it was just a Manatee being curious,\u201d McCarthy wrote in the YouTube description. \u201cManatees are super curious and often check out anything new in their environment, including people sometimes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s often hard to spot them below the surface of the water though, even when it&#8217;s really clear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/outdoors\/2025\/06\/16\/ghost-elephant-seen-for-first-time-in-years-lone-survivor\/84223941007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Also on FTW Outdoors: \u2018Ghost elephant\u2019 seen for first time in years; is it a lone survivor?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Manatees are known as gentle giants as they are a docile, calm creature and pose no threat to humans. Except to scare them occasionally.<\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of See Through Canoe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man wading in the water off a beach near Clearwater, Florida, was totally oblivious to a curious&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[5784,4021,3674,79531,77,577,3462,5791,79528,30637,5488,12,79530,3669,79533,5179,5496,70,10022,5181,16,15,359,79529,79532,1717],"class_list":{"0":"post-195577","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-affiliate","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-breaking","11":"tag-breaking-news-social","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-florida","14":"tag-local","15":"tag-local-affiliate-arts-u0026-entertainment","16":"tag-manatees","17":"tag-n4n-news","18":"tag-neutral","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-offbeat","21":"tag-online","22":"tag-online-video","23":"tag-overall","24":"tag-overall-neutral","25":"tag-science","26":"tag-social","27":"tag-u0026","28":"tag-uk","29":"tag-united-kingdom","30":"tag-video","31":"tag-watercooler","32":"tag-watercooler-news","33":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114706840590924565","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}