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Outreach at Las Mareas Elementary School in Puerto Rico
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Education efforts at Las Mareas Elementary School in preparation to receive Tuque, the manatee as a new member of this community. Dr. Antonio Mignucci dedicating the book, Manatí de Puerto Rico.
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September 29, 2011 Education efforts at Las Mareas Elementary School in preparation to receive Tuque, the manatee as a new member of this community. Dr. Antonio Mignucci dedicating the book, Manatí de Puerto Rico.
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Education efforts at Las Mareas Elementary School in preparation to receive Tuque, the manatee as a new member of this community. Dr. Antonio Mignucci dedicating the book, Manatí de Puerto Rico.
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Children from Las Mareas community welcoming new neighbor, Tuque the manatee
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Las Mareas Community prepared Welcome mural to decorate a food kiosk near the community dock.
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Las Mareas Community prepared Welcome mural to decorate a food kiosk near the community dock.
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Children getting a peak of Tuque recently released back into the water
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Recently installed new manatee protection sign at the Las Mareas community dock.
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The Las Marias Community was eager to welcome Tuque and see it get back in the waters of the Caribbean Sea
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USFWS getting ready to pick up Tuque and members fo the Puerto Rico Manatee Conservation Center to release Tuque into the water of the Caribbean Sea.
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Manatee Tuque at Bahia de Jobos Natural Reserve
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Team transporting Tuque from the shore of Las Marias Community into the Mar Negro waters.
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Tuque getting weighed with a crane
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Tuque in stretcher, getting weighed with a crane
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Tuque just arrived at Las Mareas community in Salinas Puerto Rico
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Tuque as it going in the water around 3:30 pm on Wednesday October 5, 2011
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Tuque is set free! Back into the Caribbean waters of Mar Negro
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Tuque was just captured
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Volunteers of the Puerto Rico Manatee Conservation Center setting net to capture Tuque.
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Tuque was captured around 11:40 am by the Puerto Rico Manatee Conservation Center
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Check-up right after capture.
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Tuque Capture and Release after Rehabilitation