{"id":149217,"date":"2025-09-11T15:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T15:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/149217\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T15:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T15:15:10","slug":"florida-manatee-spotted-along-jersey-shore-near-the-shark-river-inlet-in-monmouth-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/149217\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida manatee spotted along Jersey Shore, near the Shark River Inlet in Monmouth County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"jxTEW Poyse uieav lqtkC HkWF HfYhe kGyAC \">If you spot the manatee, you should report it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"6abc Digital Staff Image\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/16248352_2024-wpvi-generic-6abc-logo-on-white-background-img-v3.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Thursday, September 11, 2025 10:59AM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Florida manatee spotted along Jersey Shore, near the Shark River Inlet in Monmouth County\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Marine Mammal Stranding Center is tracking a Florida manatee along the New Jersey coast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">MONMOUTH COUNTY, N.J. (WPVI) &#8212; An uncommon visitor has been seen at the Jersey Shore.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Marine Mammal Stranding Center is tracking a Florida manatee along the New Jersey coast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It was spotted near the Shark River Inlet in Monmouth County this past weekend.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Marine Mammal Stranding Center is tracking a Florida manatee along the New Jersey coast.\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl vBqtr KrDt itslR zFTjo hakZw HlUVI \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/17792210_091125-wpvi-nj-manatee-5a-vo-video-vid.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Marine Mammal Stranding Center is tracking a Florida manatee along the New Jersey coast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The gentle giants sometimes follow warm water currents north during the summer months and make their way back down south as temperatures drop in the fall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">If you spot the manatee, you should report it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Manatees are at risk when they swim in waters below 68 degrees.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you spot the manatee, you should report it. Thursday, September 11, 2025 10:59AM The Marine Mammal Stranding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[92302,79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-149217","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-92302","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}