Manatees

Other threats for manatees include: Litter, ingestion of fish hooks, fishing line, getting entangled in crab traps and Loss of habitat. They are also at risk of getting crushed and/or drowning in canal locks.

The sea cow or Manatee moves very slowly though the water. The main form of locomotion is the slow undulation of its flat tail. The manatee will also walk long the sea bed with is front flippers as it grazes.

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Manatees have nails on their flippers that help them grip and manipulate objects in their environment. These nails assist them in foraging for food, such as seagrass, by allowing them to dig into the substrate. While the nails are not as pronounced as those of land mammals, they provide essential support for their aquatic lifestyle. Additionally, the nails can help manatees navigate through dense vegetation in their habitats.

sailors use to hunt them for food, this is why they became extinct

Manatees graze across a large range of plants, checking growth of aggressive water plants such as algae. This species gives us a heads up on environmental changes.

mainly sharks and other meat eating sea creatures

The "sea cow", more correctly known as the dugong, has a cigar-shaped body.

Yes indeed they are. Plants provide manatees with the nourishment that they need. The plants make the manatee strong.

A manatee cannot jump it only comes out of the water for air.

They stayed close to the surface of the water.

No, a walrus is not closely related to manatees.

There is a variety of ways to tell a male manatee from a female manatee. Females are generally larger than males as they have to give birth to a 3ft., 80lb. calf (average size for a baby manatee). Female manatees can get up to 3500lbs., and 10ft. in length, while males are generally in the 9ft range and 1200-1800lbs. The main way you can tell manatees appart is, just like humans, the location of the genitals. In male manatees, the genital opening is located on the underbelly of the animal right below the navel. This makes the anal opening, and genital opening farther appart. In female manatees, also on the underbelly, the genital opening is right above the anus; openings are closer together. If you can see the underside of the manatee, and locate these openings then you have the easiest way to tell the sex of a manatee.

Indians lived along the intercoastal and ate the manatees. some of their ancestors to this day still want to hunt and eat them, but who knows if they can kill one or not. they are endangered animals now, so they have protection

They aren't found in the open sea for a few reasons. One of them is that they must have fresh water to drink. Another reason is that they like warm waters, because they don't have enough blubber (fat) to keep them warm. Also, they like the water to be shallow, because the more sunlight penetrating through the water, more aquatic vegetation, which is the manatee's food, will grow there.

Manatees are more similar to elephants than to pinnipeds (like seals and sea lions) in several key ways. Both manatees and elephants share a common ancestry as they are part of the clade Afrotheria, which highlights their evolutionary relationship. Additionally, both species exhibit similar social behaviors, have large body sizes, and possess similar skin structures. In contrast, pinnipeds are more adapted to a marine lifestyle with features like flippers and a streamlined body, which contrasts with the manatee's more terrestrial-like characteristics.

calf. The calf is also for cow. Remember manatees are also called sea cows so mabye there's where they got the name

Hopefully that will not happen because generally, Manatees live in lakes or rivers, while sharks live in the oceans or the sea.

Additional Info: Sharks don't usually prey on adult Manatee, but the calves are preyed on by sharks crocodiles and alligators. Once the Manatee is fully grown this becomes rare, due to their sheer size, but the young calves are at risk, and will die if they are attacked by a shark.

Although there can never be an official answer to that, i think a cute name would be woody or Dexter, but that is my opinion

Yes, manatees do live in warm water areas.

One gram. A gram is already a unit of measurement for weight.

The walrus is the closest living relative to the manatee.

Manatees often swim alone, but it is not uncommon for them to form groups, especially when seeking areas of warm water. Groups of manatees are called aggregations or herds.

they are gray