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Q: What does a manatee use his tail for?
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How does a manatee steer itsefl through the water?

The manatee steers with it's tail or with it's front flippers.


What is the difference between a dugong and a manatee?

A dugong has a nose flap but the manatee does not. And the manatee cannot stay as long as the dugong canAnother answer.Another clear distinction between a dugong and a manatee is the tail. Manatees tails are more rounded like a paddle, whereas a dugongs tail looks more like the flukes of a whale.


How many legs does a sea cow have?

Manatee's have two front flippers and a tail. They do not actually have legs.


How do you use manatee in a sentence?

manatees are aquatic mammals.


What is a dougan?

A dugong is an animal similar to a manatee. This animal looks similar in appearance to a manatee, aside from the snout which is downturned, and used for grazing on the bottom of the water. The tail is also similar to that of a dolphin. This animal survives by eating sea-grass.


What is the name of the 2 species of a manatee?

There are 3 species of manatee. There is the West Indian manatee, the Amazonian manatee, and the Florida manatee.


What are a manatee's distinguishing features?

Probably the tail, the snout, and the size (Not quite a feature, but is still distinguishable). The tail is rounded, like a paddle. The part connecting the tale and the rest of the body, the bone, had less thin of a bone and is thicker, but at the same time, narrower, like a tube. The manatee is not to be confused with the dugong, whose tail more closely represents a dolphin tail. The snout is round, and is rather closely built into the head. The eyes are located a little higher up than the snout, but because the snout is hardly distinguishable from the head, You can barely tell. The size of a manatee, to put it bluntly, is large. The average adult could stand about 12 feet tall (about 4 meters tall.)


What Is The Plural form of manatee?

The plural form of manatee would be manatee!


Does the father manatee help take care of the baby manatee?

NO only the female manatee does NO only the female manatee does


How does manatee protect itself?

Yes, it normally will not hurt humans,but if other manatees or water animals try to harm its child it will hit them with a powerfull tail.


What is the manatee bulls?

A bull manatee is just another word for a male manatee.


Is a manatee crustacean?

no a manatee is a mammal