{"id":126138,"date":"2025-08-07T10:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T10:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/126138\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T10:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T10:53:09","slug":"manatee-spotted-off-cape-cod-first-in-nearly-a-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/126138\/","title":{"rendered":"Manatee spotted off Cape Cod, first in nearly a decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"a-term a-term--primary\" href=\"https:\/\/www.boston.com\/tag\/local-news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLocal News\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tThe last confirmed manatee sighting in Cape Cod in Sept. 2016, when a pregnant manatee was rescued off Washburn Island.<\/p>\n<p><img width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/https___arcmigration-prdweb.bostonglobe.com_r_Boston_2011-2020_2014_05_02_BostonGlobe.com_Metro_Imag.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-16:9 size-16:9 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><br \/>\n\tAlmost 10 years after it was last reported, a manatee was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capecodtimes.com\/story\/news\/environment\/2025\/08\/06\/manatee-cape-cod-mashpee-spotted-swimming-popponesset-bay-new-seabury-florida\/85538349007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">spotted<\/a> swimming in a Cape Cod inlet on July 26.\u00a0 Joanne Rathe\/The Boston Globe\t<\/p>\n<p>A manatee was reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capecodtimes.com\/story\/news\/environment\/2025\/08\/06\/manatee-cape-cod-mashpee-spotted-swimming-popponesset-bay-new-seabury-florida\/85538349007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">spotted<\/a> swimming in a Cape Cod inlet on July 26, nearly 10 years after the last time the animal was seen in the area.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Stevie Petrucci glimpsed the large mammal swimming near Popponesset Bay while walking down the dock of his home in Mashpee, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capecodtimes.com\/story\/news\/environment\/2025\/08\/06\/manatee-cape-cod-mashpee-spotted-swimming-popponesset-bay-new-seabury-florida\/85538349007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Cape Cod Times reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just noticed something very weird and strange-looking that I\u2019d never really seen before, so I walked over. It took my brain, like, three seconds to realize what it was,\u201d Petrucci <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capecodtimes.com\/story\/news\/environment\/2025\/08\/06\/manatee-cape-cod-mashpee-spotted-swimming-popponesset-bay-new-seabury-florida\/85538349007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told the Cape Cod Times<\/a>. \u201cI was like, \u2018Holy crap. It\u2019s a manatee. What are you doing up here?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Petrucci\u2019s father, Stephen, told the Cape Cod Times it was his first time seeing a manatee in his 24 years of living on the Cape.<\/p>\n<p>Knowing the manatees prefer warm water \u2014 they like it to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fws.gov\/species\/manatee-trichechus-manatus\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">above 68 degrees<\/a> \u2014 Stephen Petrucci was taken aback by seeing one.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew exactly what it was as soon as I saw it,\u201d he told the Times.<\/p>\n<p>In warm months, some Florida manatees swim up the coast, \u201cwith a few animals traveling as far north as Massachusetts,\u201d Florida Fish and Waterlife Conservation Commission wrote on its <a href=\"https:\/\/myfwc.com\/wildlifehabitats\/profiles\/mammals\/aquatic\/florida-manatee\/#:~:text=West%20Indian%20manatees%20can%20be,as%20far%20north%20as%20Massachusetts.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The last confirmed manatee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local-news\/2016\/08\/29\/a-manatee-was-spotted-off-cape-cod\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sighting<\/a> in Cape Cod in Sept. 2016, when a pregnant manatee was rescued off Washburn Island.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSign up for the Today newsletter<\/p>\n<p class=\"m-generic-cta__subtitle\">Get everything you need to know to start your day, delivered right to your inbox every morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Local News The last confirmed manatee sighting in Cape Cod in Sept. 2016, when a pregnant manatee was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":126139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[159,67,132,68,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-126138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-unitedstates","11":"tag-us","12":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114987113005943802","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}