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| December 29, 1995 | Long, Phil | COPYRIGHT 1999 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

VERO BEACH, Fla. _ Like New Yorkers jetting to Miami Beach to escape the snow, a special breed of Floridians is migrating to warmer climes.

They are the state's manatees, and they are huddling by the dozens in the warm water gushing from Florida's power plants.

In a survey this week, biologists counted 656 manatees at five Florida Power & Light bayfront plants from Cape Canaveral to Fort Lauderdale to Fort Myers. That's more than a third of all the manatees believed to remain in North America.

When the mercury fell into the 30s and 40s in Florida this week, the water began to chill where manatees had been hanging out _ on bay-bottom grass flats and in the…

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