{"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

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

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

Michael McCarthy, owner of the See Through Canoe Company, posted video of the recent encounter on YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\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

\u201cIt’s often hard to spot them below the surface of the water though, even when it’s really clear.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also on FTW Outdoors: \u2018Ghost elephant\u2019 seen for first time in years; is it a lone survivor?<\/a><\/p>\n

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

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…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"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":["post-195577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-affiliate","tag-arts","tag-breaking","tag-breaking-news-social","tag-entertainment","tag-florida","tag-local","tag-local-affiliate-arts-u0026-entertainment","tag-manatees","tag-n4n-news","tag-neutral","tag-news","tag-offbeat","tag-online","tag-online-video","tag-overall","tag-overall-neutral","tag-science","tag-social","tag-u0026","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-video","tag-watercooler","tag-watercooler-news","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}]}}