Manatees at Fort Lauderdale Beach, Florida

When we decided to go to the beach today (05/06/2012), we had no idea we would be treated to a very special appearance by some very large and very cute West Indian manatees; multiple males vying for the affection of one female.

Local 10 News story: http://www.local10.com/thats-life/Man...

The Sun-Sentinel story: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/brow...

The Huffington Post story: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05...

The Inquisitr story: http://www.inquisitr.com/232317/flori...

The Baltimore Sun story: http://www.baltimoresun.com/videogall...

The Washington Post story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/nationa...

NY Daily News story: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/natio...

The Long Island Press story: http://www.longislandpress.com/2012/0...

The Global Post story: http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/...

The Chicago Tribune story: http://www.chicagotribune.com/videoga...

The State Journal-Register story: http://www.sj-r.com/breaking/x1266598...

The San Francisco Chronicle story: http://blog.sfgate.com/hottopics/2012...

The Calgary Herald story: http://www.calgaryherald.com/technolo...

The Vancouver Sun story: http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Mana...

KITV News Honolulu story: http://www.kitv.com/Herd-of-manatees-...

TIME story: http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/05/08/w...

ABC story: http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerInd...

MSNBC & Today story: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/2618489...

FOX story:http://myfox8.com/2012/05/09/manatees...

USAToday story: http://www.digtriad.com/video/default...

KPLR 11 story: http://kplr11.com/2012/05/08/manatees...

Yahoo! Odd News story: http://news.yahoo.com/video/oddnews-2...

Discovery story: http://blogs.discovery.com/animal_new...

The Weather Channel story: http://www.weather.com/weather/videos...

Digital Journal story: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article...

DailyMail story: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/artic...

Daily Picks & Flicks story: http://dailypicksandflicks.com/2012/0...

Viral Viral Videos story: http://www.viralviralvideos.com/2012/...

NHK (Japan Broadcasting Company): http://doga.nhk.or.jp/doga/viewvideo....

• Category

  Pets & Animals

[Cadynce09]

I'm from Ft.Lauderdale myself (tho I don't live there now) We'd see them in the inlets all the time b ut never like this, Thanks for sharing

[Craig Hossack]

My pleasure.

[Thomas Jonker]

im not good at english but what are manatees

[Craig Hossack]

Check this out. There's these things call search engines. Try using one and type in the word "MANATEE".

[2centsplain]

I'm glad you are tall enough to get such good video. Great filming and editing. Thanks for sharing.

[Craig Hossack]

I'm not that tall. I just held the camera above my head for most of it. [LOL] Thanks for the positive post though.

[HarelShmoaly]

They aren't dangerous :)

[Craig Hossack]

Uh... (as stated in the title) Fort Lauderdale Beach. To be specific... between Sunrise Blvd and Vistamar St. The beach is beautiful BTW.

[IntuitiveHeartHealer]

Such beautiful creatures. Amazing how they came to shore like that

[Thomas Jonker]

ne parle pas france bon

[PassionBoxer]

Ce sont des lamantins aussi appelés vaches de mer (Trichechus), genre de gros mammifères herbivores, au corps fuselé.

[brooklynlulu]

I'm sitting having a cup of tea and watching an orgy, priceless!

[134kdub]

ROLLING SQUAD DEEP

[Austin Richesin]

This is so awesome!!

[Davidovar34]

zeekoeien

[rachel galish]

"It's more like a gang bang" lmao

[mistervanderveer]

Lol, they're manatees.

They are literally the cows of the ocean.