Whats WRONG with this picture?
Tagging ans sampling a big animal, weighing over 1,000 pounds is difficult.. In nature it lives in a zero-gravity state, buoyant in the water. Laying a big animal like this out on the ground can't be any good for it's internal organs. It's guts are squashed together by it's own weight. This could do more harm to the manatee than any posible good. Sample manatees from within the water, we must go where they live.