In this episode, Christa reads a lesson she wrote on manatees covering everything from taxonomy, anatomy, behavior, and how to safely interact with manatees. This episode is intended to be a resource for auditory learners.

Please note that in this episode, Christa is reading from the second edition of the first volume of the Florida’s Marine Life Class Series workbook. Since season one of the podcast was recorded, revisions have been made to a few lessons in the workbook to reflect updates to scientific information. For those lessons that were changed, new podcasts have been recorded as Season 3 to ensure that there is a corresponding auditory resource for every available version of the workbook. Lessons that were not changed were not re-recorded and are available as a part of Season 1.

Topics Covered:

 1. What is a manatee?
 2. Classification of manatees
 3. The Florida manatee
 4. Characteristics of a mammal
 5. Marine mammal anatomy
 6. Interesting manatee facts
 7. Protecting Florida’s manatees
 8. Quiz Questions
 9. Devotional: How can we see the character of God in manatees?

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