OVERSEAS-GUADELOUPE-ANIMAL-CONSERVATION
A picture taken on August 10, 2016 shows the containers where the two manatees Kai or Junior did the journey from Singapore to the accommodation centre of Blachon for manatees in Grand Cul-de-Sac Marin in Guadeloupe. Two manatees born and bred at the Singapore Zoo left the city-state early on August 8 for Guadeloupe as part of the world's first repopulation programme for the mammal, which became extinct on the French Caribbean island. Males Kai, seven, and Junior, six, left Singapore at 4:50 am (2050 GMT Sunday) for the 34-hour journey on a chartered Singapore Airlines cargo flight, the zoo operator said, they arrived on August 9 in Guadeloupe.
After a farewell ceremony on Sunday attended by representatives from the French embassy, the manatees -- weighing hundreds of kilos -- were coaxed onto canvases and placed in custom-built open-top crates lined with thick sponge, an operation involving dozens of zoo staff. (Photo by Helene Valenzuela / AFP) (Photo by HELENE VALENZUELA/AFP via Getty Images)

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