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Rick Loomis The Los Angeles Times
"Altered Oceans"


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Bleeding from the nose is one of the indicators that a manatee has died from breathing or eating sea grass tainted with brevetoxin.The potent neurotoxin blooms off the West Coast of Florida. Manatees are classified as 'threatened with extinction' under state law.
 

 

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