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Speaker 1: From Mediator's World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This is

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Speaker 1: Kels we can review with Ryan kel Kellan. Now here's

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Speaker 1: kel A manatee or sea cow dub Molly showed up

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Speaker 1: in Galveston Bay, Texas last week. Oh the manity That

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Speaker 1: manity noise is not an actual manity. That's my good

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Speaker 1: friend and famous wildlife artist At Anderson. A few manities

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Speaker 1: have shown up in Texas waters over the last few years,

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Speaker 1: but they're not full time Texans as. The winter water

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Speaker 1: temps are too cold for their liking and there isn't

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Speaker 1: quite enough sea grass to sustain them. Sea cows need

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Speaker 1: to eat six to eight hours a day every day.

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Speaker 1: The name sea cow starts to make more sense than

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Speaker 1: manatee when you think of them as literal underwater grass grazers.

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Speaker 1: What separates the sea cow from the land cow other

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Speaker 1: than the obvious, is their teeth. The sand on those

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Speaker 1: grasses the sea cow munches wear down the frontal molars

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Speaker 1: on their four rows of teeth. When a tooth wears

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Speaker 1: down far enough, it gets shed and replaced by another

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Speaker 1: molar that erupts in the jaw and gradually moves forward

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Speaker 1: to take its place. Some studies suggest the speed of

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Speaker 1: that dental conveyor belt depends on how fast the teeth

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Speaker 1: are wearing down. Manatees feeding in sandy regions may replace

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Speaker 1: teeth faster than those living in clearer water. Take a

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Speaker 1: look into a one year old land cow's mouth, on

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Speaker 1: the other hand, and you're staring at all the teeth

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Speaker 1: that thing will ever have. Left to its own devices

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Speaker 1: long as those teeth do. Once they're ground down by

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Speaker 1: the grit and sand, it's curtains for the cow. That's all.

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Speaker 1: Folks back to Molly the manatee in her appearance in Texas. Now,

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Speaker 1: they've got manatees in Mexico, and they've got manatees and Florida,

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Speaker 1: but they are indeed rare in Texas due to the

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Speaker 1: cold water and lack of grub that I referred to.

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Speaker 1: Texas Parks and Wildlife speculates that this particular animal was

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Speaker 1: attracted to a bloom of water hyacinth. She's been hanging

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Speaker 1: around Galveston, Corpus, Christie Bay and South Padre Island, which

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Speaker 1: is a popular party spot for you spring breakers. So

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Speaker 1: Molly may just be looking for love. Who knows. After all,

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Speaker 1: the manateee or sea cow is speculated to be what

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Speaker 1: those old sailor stories of mermaids were actually about. Got

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Speaker 1: a pocket knife, eGolf that eats people or is it?

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Speaker 1: And so much more. But first I'm gonna tell you

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Speaker 1: about my week. A few months ago, I went down

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Speaker 1: to Florida to do some fishing. We filmed that fishing

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Speaker 1: for an episode of Listen Up, Dos Boat. Dos Boat

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Speaker 1: is a big, big news as this is first major

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Speaker 1: fishing launch at meat Eater. Dos Boat is a really cool,

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Speaker 1: funny and just playing fun fishing series we put together.

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Speaker 1: You can watch it on the meat Eater YouTube channel.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna see a lot of locations around the South

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Speaker 1: and Southeast that anyone with a cheap boat can fish.

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Speaker 1: On top of that, you're gonna learn about these fisheries

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Speaker 1: and some of the issues we all as anglers and

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Speaker 1: folks who love water, water to play in, fish in,

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Speaker 1: not already, go to the Meat Eater YouTube channel or

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Speaker 1: the meat eater dot com and check out dos Boat.

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Speaker 1: Episode one is up now and you can expect new

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Speaker 1: episodes just about every Thursday. Be sure to let us

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Speaker 1: know what you think. Subscribe and tell your friends, because

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Speaker 1: I really like to fish and I want to go

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Speaker 1: do more of them, all right, One last bit of

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Speaker 1: housekeeping in regards to Cal's Weekend Review and swapping animal noises.

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Speaker 1: If you caught last week's episode of Col's Weekend Review,

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Speaker 1: To watch the Masters on television is to be transported

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Speaker 1: this all means if you care enough to write in

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Speaker 1: I recently received an email from a listener notifying me

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Speaker 1: Weekend Review, stating that quote, I gave you a chance,

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Speaker 1: our editor in chief. He was musing on readers whould

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Speaker 1: up on this recurring paleontological theme. Folks go out and

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