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(Trichechus manatus)

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Adults average about 10 feet long and weigh 1,000 pounds. They have no hindlimbs, and their forelimbs are modified as flippers. Manatee tails are flattened horizontally and rounded. Their body is covered with sparse hairs and their muzzles with stiff whiskers.

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During summer months, they may migrate as far north as coastal Virginia on the east coast and the Louisiana coast on the Gulf of Mexico.

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Manatees inhabit both salt and fresh water of sufficient depth (1.5 meters to usually less than 6 meters throughout their range. They may be encountered in canals, rivers, earnestine habitats, saltwater bays, and on occasion have been observed as much as 3.7 miles off the Florida Gulf coast.

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Overexploitation

The manatee has no known predators other than humans. In the past, humans hunted manatees extensively for their meat, fat, and tough hides. In some parts of the Caribbean and South America, manatees are still hunted for food.

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-They'll take care of their children better than most people.
-They're too nice they dont have anytime to hurt anything else.
-They don't only swim to get places they swim to play!
-They really pay attention, turning their bodies to face whatever they're looking at.
-They're an essential part of their ecosystems.

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Manatees are primarily herbivores. They feed on a wide variety of submerged, emergent, floating, and shoreline vegetation.

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The leading human-caused threat to Florida manateesis collisions with watercraft. Propellers and boat hulls inflict serious or mortal wounds, and most manatees have a pattern of scars on their backs or tails after surviving collisions with boats.

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They call them sea cows because the are very large and live under the sea.

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the manatees are a good animals to clear out all of the algae and stuff in the oceans.

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https://www.fws.gov/nc-es/mammal/manatee.html

http://www.bagheera.com/inthewild/van_anim_manatee.htm