Transcript for Snooty, the oldest captive manatee, dead at 69

We're heartbroken over the deaths of snooty. Just yesterday over 5000 people came here this personally share in the joy of sues city 69 birthday. We heard so many wonderful stories of how much city meant to people and how much he was a part of their lives. Katie was important that something. Today we are getting an outpouring of love and support from our community and olives communities Spain's. This morning aquarium staff. Came in at 8 AM as usual and we're not able to locate all of the manatees in the tank which is the first thing that they do. Quick assessment showed that an underwater hatch that you use to access plumbing that's associated with our life support system. Had somehow been knocked loose and was open. Manatees and access to get into this tight area to young manatees were able to get in and out of that than it appears that snooty was able to get into the area. But he was not able to extract himself from that situation. To put some time to figure out exactly how we were going to reveal what that situation. When we did finally get to snooty. Little.

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