Tepee the Manatee

By Helen Digges Spivey

This is an eBook for the curious, the young, and all those who are young at heart, complete with photos. It follows the underwater adventures of a little manatee calf, and what it must learn about itself, and where it must live. Or as little Tepee would put it ~~~ “live as an ‘in-danger’ species.”
Overall, it will give you a glimpse of a life cycle that might be all but gone before you have a chance to read this book to the next generation, if we do not realize, and change what we are doing to the Manatee population.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Helen Digges Spivey
• Release date: Sep 6, 2011
• ISBN: 9781465708311

Helen Digges Spivey

A part of Helen Digges Spivey’s life has always been rooted in her love for the Florida she knew and loved as a child, along with her devoted companion, a bird dog named Rex. Through the Boom, Panic and Bust of Florida they learned to cope with whatever came their way within the confines of a loving, oft times humorous, creative family.It helped Helen develop an abiding love for animals, where they live, and the need to sustain their habitat. She was elected Co-Chair of Save the Manatee Club in 2000 and still holds that office, and also currently serves as President of the Florida League of Conservation Voters Education Fund. She is on the Board of the National Greyhound Foundation, and has served on the Crystal River Florida City Council and in the Florida House of Representatives,She sees hope that the tide is turning with people finally being able to use solar power economically, and electric cars (fed by solar power of course) helping us finally wean away from oil, and people understanding the need for recycling everything or refrain from getting it to begin with, and conserving water. Long an advocate for composting toilets, she is hoping that too will someday become an item for everyday use.Helen was married to a career Navy Chief Petty Officer for over 47 years when he passed away in 1997. Together they had four children.Helen has donated half of the proceeds from her eBook, "Tepee the Manatee" to Save the Manatee Club at www.savethemanatee.org

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Tepee the Manatee

By Helen Digges Spivey

Copyright 2011 Helen Digges Spivey

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Dedicated to all the members and staff of

Save the Manatee Club

Whose efforts to save all manatees like little Tepee have been far and above the call of duty.

And to all the Grassroots campaigners everywhere

For their tireless help.

Tepee’s Thoughts

In a land where boat propellers cut you and your scars name you, you’d like to think that someone would make sure we at least have a home. When you name something it means you are going to care for it. Right? Yet it doesn’t seem to work that way when your home is in the Gulf Coast, inlet waters and springs of Florida.

--- My official name is Triangle. I am a baby manatee calf and was named for the scars on my back where I was hit by three boats from three different directions --- in the same day. WOW!

My Mummy told me that once upon a time, sailors thought we were mermaids! I am really cute but I am not a mermaid, just an aquatic mammal sometimes called a Sea Cow but I don’t moo. But I do breathe air just like you.

My Mummy told