with over one thousand dying each year," said Curator of Florida Manatees at Zoo Tampa Molly Lippincott. "There's only about 7,000 of them, so you think of 1,000 dying each year. That's pretty ...

Weighing only a few ounces, the baby manatee stuffie was much easier for campers to wrangle than the real thing during a mock rescue at ZooTampa’s Manatee Critical Care Center in Tampa.

TAMPA, Fla. — Zoo Tampa is one of only a few critical care facilities in Florida able to treat sick and injured manatees. But zoo officials say that because of limited space, they can only take ...

(WSVN) - Animal care teams in Tampa rescued a manatee from frigid waters after ... And unfortunately, he likely won’t be the zoo’s last rescue.

TAMPA, Fla. — About a week after being ... moved to rehabilitation pools and are socializing with other manatees, something the zoo says is essential for manatees "in human care" to thrive.

Two elderly and overweight manatees are acclimating to their new environments after getting around the clock care and medical intervention at the Tampa Zoo Romeo and Juliet, who arrived at ...

TAMPA (BLOOM) – Zoo Tampa at Lowry Park’s Manatee Critical Care Center is once again nominated as one of the best Zoo exhibits in the country. The zoo was nominated for helping rescue ...

Workers are racing to protect more than 1,000 animals that live in Tampa’s zoo as Hurricane Milton barrels ... Commission were still rescuing wild manatees that had reached areas normally ...