Manatees are three of the four living species in the order Sirenia. They measure up to 4. 0 metres long, weigh as much as 590 kilograms, and have paddle-like flippers. They are herbivores and eat over 60 different freshwater and saltwater plants. The Florida manateed has been known to live up to 60 years.
About Manatee in brief
Manatees are three of the four living species in the order Sirenia. They measure up to 4. 0 metres long, weigh as much as 590 kilograms, and have paddle-like flippers. Manatees inhabit the shallow, marshy coastal areas and rivers of the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, the Amazon basin, and West Africa. They are herbivores and eat over 60 different freshwater and saltwater plants. The Amazonian’s hair color is brownish gray, and it has thick wrinkled skin, often with coarse hair, or \”whiskers\”. At birth, baby manatees weigh about 30 kg each. The manatee is unusual among mammals in having just six cervical vertebrae, a number that may be due to mutations in the homeotic genes. Like the horse, theManatee has a simple stomach, but a large cecum, in which it can digest tough plant matter. The main causes of death for manateES are human-related issues, such as habitat destruction and human objects. Their slow-moving, curious nature has led to violent collisions with propeller-driven boats and ships. The Florida manateed has been known to live up to 60 years. The lids of manateese’ small, widely spaced eyes close in a circular manner. The adults have no incisor or canine teeth, just a set of cheek teeth, which are not clearly differentiated into molars and premolars.
The female manateo has two teats, one under each flipper, a characteristic that was used to make early links between the manatea and elephants. The menatee’s intestines are about 45 meters, unusually long for an animal of its size – apart from the manates of the Early Eirenocene – date back to the back to back to date. They spend approximately 50% of the day submerged, sleeping for regularly 20 minutes at intervals of less than 20 minutes. They have been known to swim at up to 30kmh in short bursts of short bursts, and are capable of learning of complex tasks and associative tasks. They often graze on water plants in tropical seas, and often swim at about 5kmh to 8kmh in shallow waters at depths of 1–2 m–2–hm. Their tail is paddle-shaped, and is the clearest visible difference between manateers and dugongs; a dugong tail is fluked, similar in shape to that of a whale. The etymology of the name is unclear, with connections having been made to Latin manus, and to a word – sometimes cited as manati – used by the Taíno, a pre-Columbian people of the Caribbean, meaning ‘breast’ Manatee’s other name, sea cows, comes from the fact that they are slow plant-eaters, peaceful and similar to cows on land.
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