In “Love in the Time of Cholera,” Nobel prize-winning Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Márquez writes of long-suffering love, the triumph of old age, and manatees. To be fair, the manatees are less of a theme — more of a motif, really — but they pop up frequently in this epic of romantic longing. We first meet the marine mammals along the waters of the Magdalena as our protagonist heads into the Colombian jungle to escape the sorrow of a broken heart. I’ve seen dugongs and manatees in captivity, and looked at puictures (sic) and illustrations, and have yet to see a human-like boob on one. He writes a sort of eulogy for the creatures toward the end of the book, when — in an echo of our own Gulf waters — most of the manatees of the Magdalena have been killed. Web site, a group of 10 manatees was recently spotted offshore near Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, frolicking in the shallow waves. read more
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