The story is fiction, but not the manatees. They are a large grazing animal that lives in water in the warm tropics. Their numbers are suffering now, due to loss of habitat and man. Manatees are a calm peaceful species. They have a special beauty and are loved by those people who live near them. Many people feed them or give them a drink of fresh water. The manatees like this very much and they swim to the boats in heavily traveled areas. Many...