What is a manatees diet?

Answer 1

Manatees are herbivores and eat over 60 different plant species such as mangrove leaves, turtle grass, and types of algae, using their divided upper lip. An adult manatee will commonly eat up to 9% of its body weight (approx 50 kg) per day. Manatees have been known to eat small amounts of fish from nets.

Answer 2

manatees use their front flippers to pull food toward their mouths. Mostly, however, they use their remarkable snout for this purpose. You see, God gave manatees a specially-designed upper lip that is split in the middle and can clamp onto plants like a pair of pliers. Manatees move along the bottom with their flippers, pulling water plants with their strong plier-like upper lip.

Answer 3

Manatees eat by holding sea grass in their mouths and they slowly chew it up.

Answer 4

by holding on to the seeweed and then pulling out by there mouth's. : )

I LOVE MANATEES : )

Answer 5

Manatees can eat up to 150 pounds of sea grass a day.

Answer 6

a manatees diet is mainly sea grass and algae. because they are herbivores they only eat vegatation things.

Answer 7

It shops at Cub Foods.

Answer 8

It shops at Cub Shop.