HIGHLIGHT: FLORIDA

Key Colony Beach: Three adult male manatees rescued from waters in the Florida Keys earlier this year have been returned to a Keys canal after being treated and rehabilitated at SeaWorld Orlando. Personnel from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Dolphin Research Center, Florida Keys Aquarium Encounters and SeaWorld helped transition the trio on Tuesday from transport trucks to land and then into the water. “Three animals in the same day … there’s nothing better,” Dolphin Research Center medical director Dr. Scott Gearhart said. “To take in an animal that needs your help and to see them released is fantastic … all three of them.”

ANDY NEWMAN/FLORIDA KEYS NEWS BUREAU VIA AP A male manatee raises his head just before being released back into the water Tuesday in Key Colony Beach, Fla.