{"id":485895,"date":"2026-01-02T00:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T00:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/485895\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T00:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T00:19:09","slug":"manatees-huddle-together-for-warmth-on-new-years-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/485895\/","title":{"rendered":"Manatees huddle together for warmth on New Year&#8217;s Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wonder how manatees stay warm?<\/p>\n<p>They cuddle!<\/p>\n<p>Manatees huddle together for warmth in Three Sisters Springs<\/p>\n<p>These Florida manatees huddled into quite the cuddle puddle when temperatures dropped in Citrus County on New Year&#8217;s Eve.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of manatees were spotted taking refuge at Three Sisters Springs in Crystal River.<\/p>\n<p>The temperature in the area was 35 degrees on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Southwest Florida Water Management officials say a project that repaired the eroded shoreline improved water quality and restored the manatee habitat back in 2023, making it a great spot for the mammals to stay warm in the winter. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ever wonder how manatees stay warm? They cuddle! Manatees huddle together for warmth in Three Sisters Springs These&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":485896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[84102,159,219571,67,132,68,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-485895","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-manatees","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-three-sister-springs","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us","14":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115822641967089511","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485895","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=485895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}