“I’m a manatee. I’m a manatee. I’m a manatee,” Nelson Lavin told himself as he floated at the surface of a quiet mangrove lagoon in Belize. A dozen or so feet below, an Antillean manatee had just swum into view. These endangered creatures are rarely seen in the wild, but the mangroves of Belize offer one of the best opportunities in the world to swim alongside these giant herbivores, whose closest living relatives are elephants. Before easing in…
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