{"id":170860,"date":"2026-02-27T01:32:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T01:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/170860\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T01:32:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T01:32:19","slug":"manatee-and-calf-rescued-in-lee-county-to-be-taken-care-of-in-seaworld-orlando","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/170860\/","title":{"rendered":"Manatee and calf rescued in Lee County to be taken care of in SeaWorld Orlando"},"content":{"rendered":"

ZooTampa helped care for a manatee and her calf after they were rescued by the Lee County Sheriff’s Office.<\/p>\n

LEE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 An injure manatee and her calf were rescued in Lee County with the help of marine experts.<\/p>\n

ZooTampa<\/a> said Thursday it helped transport an injured manatee and her calf. \u00a0Drones captured video of their dramatic rescue, which took place on the Orange River in the Fort Myers area.<\/p>\n

The Lee County Sheriff’s office posted video of crews pulling the pair out of the water, loading them onto a boat, then onto land.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The sheriff’s office used a drone to keep an eye on the two. The drones live-streamed video to the rescue boats, which in turn helped safety gather the sea cow and her calf.<\/p>\n

Once on land, ZooTampa tells 10 Tampa Bay News they had crews there to help transport the mother and calf to SeaWorld for treatment.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ZooTampa helped care for a manatee and her calf after they were rescued by the Lee County Sheriff’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-170860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}