{"id":25068,"date":"2025-10-29T12:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T12:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/25068\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T12:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T12:54:08","slug":"rehabilitated-manatee-released-at-horton-park-in-cape-coral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/25068\/","title":{"rendered":"Rehabilitated manatee released at Horton Park in Cape Coral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rehabilitated manatee released at Horton Park in Cape Coral<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761742448_534_gcnn.png\" class=\"lazyload lazyload-in-view branding\" alt=\"Gulf Coast News logo\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tUpdated: 8:33 AM EDT Oct 29, 2025\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gulfcoastnewsnow.com\/article\/hearst-television-news-policy-statements\/14471973\" class=\"editorial-standards border-left\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Editorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA manatee was released back into the wild at Horton Park in Cape Coral on Friday.According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the male manatee was rescued in November 2023. At the time of his rescue, he weighed only 540 pounds. SeaWorld helped rehabilitate the manatee and located a fishing hook in his gastrointestinal tract, FWC said. Disney assisted with the aftercare and helped the manatee gain weight. FWC said that at the time of his release, the manatee weighed 1,040 pounds. DOWNLOAD\u202fthe free\u202fGulf Coast News app for your latest news and alerts on breaking news, weather, sports, entertainment, and more on your phone or tablet. And check out the Very Local Gulf Coast app to stream news, entertainment and original programming on your TV.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tCAPE CORAL, Fla. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A manatee was released back into the wild at Horton Park in Cape Coral on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the male manatee was rescued in November 2023. At the time of his rescue, he weighed only 540 pounds. <\/p>\n<p>SeaWorld helped rehabilitate the manatee and located a fishing hook in his gastrointestinal tract, FWC said. Disney assisted with the aftercare and helped the manatee gain weight. <\/p>\n<p>FWC said that at the time of his release, the manatee weighed 1,040 pounds. <\/p>\n<p>DOWNLOAD\u202fthe free\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/qrco.de\/gcnapp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gulf Coast News app<\/a> for your latest news and alerts on breaking news, weather, sports, entertainment, and more on your phone or tablet. And check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylocal.com\/wbbh-ft-myers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Very Local Gulf Coast app<\/a> to stream news, entertainment and original programming on your TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rehabilitated manatee released at Horton Park in Cape Coral Updated: 8:33 AM EDT Oct 29, 2025 Editorial Standards&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1185,209,211,210,2344,104,4747,19091,1179,14523,213,4134,19092,19090,197,2393,221],"class_list":["post-25068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-alert","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-download","tag-entertainment","tag-fwc","tag-gastrointestinal-tract","tag-gulf-coast-news-app","tag-horton-park","tag-late-news","tag-manatee","tag-manatee-gain-weight","tag-pound","tag-sport","tag-time","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25068","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=25068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}