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A picture taken on August 10, 2016 shows the accommodation centre of Blachon for manatees in Grand Cul-de-Sac Marin in Guadeloupe where the two manatees Kai and Junior are living after being transferred from Singapore. 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 (20:50 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)