{"id":382542,"date":"2026-01-02T00:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T00:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/382542\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T00:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T00:01:07","slug":"manatees-huddle-together-for-warmth-on-new-years-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/382542\/","title":{"rendered":"Manatees huddle together for warmth on New Year&#8217;s Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wonder how manatees stay warm?<\/p>\n<p>They cuddle!<\/p>\n<p>Manatees huddle together for warmth in Three Sisters Springs<\/p>\n<p>These Florida manatees huddled into quite the cuddle puddle when temperatures dropped in Citrus County on New Year&#8217;s Eve.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of manatees were spotted taking refuge at Three Sisters Springs in Crystal River.<\/p>\n<p>The temperature in the area was 35 degrees on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Southwest Florida Water Management officials say a project that repaired the eroded shoreline improved water quality and restored the manatee habitat back in 2023, making it a great spot for the mammals to stay warm in the winter. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ever wonder how manatees stay warm? They cuddle! Manatees huddle together for warmth in Three Sisters Springs These&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[55892,79,186516,201],"class_list":["post-382542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-manatees","tag-science","tag-three-sister-springs","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382542","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=382542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}