"From a distance you can see that there is something large bobbing and floating in the water here of the Caloosahatchee River. Residents of the Fort Myers Shores community tell me off camera, they've been smelling something a little funky since Saturday and come to find out it's a dead manatee that has been rotting and decaying in the water ever since. We initially reported at the as a young or baby and then now that two days have passed and it turned around, you could see that it's a full looks like a full size picture of manatee. Robert Anderson tells me he found a dead manatee Saturday morning and reported to FWC. I got out on the water to find the animal and take a closer look. You can see it is now belly up, covered in flies and rotting away in the Caloosahatchee. From up close you can't see any scars or cuts, which makes Anderson think it may have died from natural causes or something in the water. I reached out to save the Dr. Beth Brady is the director of science and conservation. She tells me in these types of cases, FWC will perform a necropsy, which is an autopsy for animals. If the animals too decomposed, particularly right now in this Florida summer heat wave we're having, sometimes you can't find out the results or the cause of the death of these animals. The leading threats to manatees are human related activities and harmful algal blooms like red tide. FWC has been notified of the manatee death and is looking into it. Covering the Gulf Coast in Fort Meyer Shores, I'm Natasha Casal for Gulf Coast News."