what issues do the amazonian manatees face
There are 3 species of manatee. There is the West Indian manatee, the Amazonian manatee, and the Florida manatee.
There are for kinds of manatee: the Amazonian, West Indian, Dwarf, and African Manatee. The West Indian Manatee lives in the Caribbean (I guess you can call that North America). The African Manatee lives in Africa. But both the Amazonian and Dwarf manatees live in South America. Therefore, South America has most manatees.
The researchers are trying to see how many there are, but won't give us an estimate. But they do think the manatee populaton is increasing.
All species of manatee have fingernails, apart from the the Amazonian manatee and the dugong, they do not have fingernails.
The sea cow is also called a manatee. There are three species, Trichechus inunguis, the Amazonian manatee, Trichechus manatus, the West Indian manatee, and Trichechus senegalensis, the West African species.
There are three manatee subspecies. The West Indian, West African, and Amazonian.
The Manatee Species listed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services Endangered Species List, as of 01/2010, are the Amazonian Manatee, the West African Manatee, and the West Indian Manatee. There is a Dugong also listed. While the Florida Manatee is listed as endangered by The State of Florida. For more details, please see the sites listed below.
The Amazonian Manatee and the West Indian Manatee are both listed as "endangered", while the West African Manatee is listed as "threatened", according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Endangered Speices List. For more details, please see sites listed below.
The Manatee species listed as "endangered" by the US Fish and Wildlife Services, Endangered Species List are the following; * Amazonian manatee-- Trichechus inunguis * West Indian manatee--Trichechus manatus * Dugong--Dugong dugon For more details, please see the sites listed below.
There are three species that are listed as "vulnerable" with populations decreasing, by the IUCN Red List. They are the South American Manatee (Amazonian), West Indian Manatee, and the West African Manatee. The US Fish and Wildlife Service Endangered Species List has the West African Manatee also listed as "threatened", and the West Indian Manatee, and the Amazonian Manatee, also known as the South American Manatee, both listed as "endangered". For more details please see sites listed below.
Manatees cannot live anywhere on land, they are a water creature that lives in very shallow, warm marshy, tropical waters. The Florida Manatee lives off the coast of Florida, and the Keys, in the Gulf of Mexico. But the West Indian Manatee migrates into Florida rivers during the winter months. The Amazonian Manatee lives in the Amazon River, while the West African Manatee lives along the river systems of the west coast of Africa. For more details, please see the sites listed below.
There are 4 different known species of manatee, all with slightly different scientific names:The Amazonian Manatee is called the Trichechus inunguisThe West Indian Manatee is called the Trichechus manatusThe African Manatee is called the Trichechus senegalensisThe Dwarf Manatee is called the Trichechus pygmaeus(although it has been questioned whether the Dwarf Manatee is indeed a new species)