Manatees

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

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

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.

Yes, manatees do live in warm water areas.

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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

The manatee on average, is facing several large problems. Most are habitat related, either due to a general loss of habitat, due to coast line construction and the increase in boat traffic that brings. As well, as development of the general area, which in turn brings more people to the areas they feed, and raise their young in. This creates run off, which creates problems in the water, and of course, the rivers need to be controlled so they are safe to build beside. Boat strikes are a big factor in everyday life for the manatee, and propellers do serious injury to them, even as far as amputating their tails, and flippers. They die of these injuries! When they move upriver seeking warmer waters, they face the "water control structures". Floodgates, navigational locks, flood pipes, and drainage channels, all can trap the manatee and they can drown or be crushed. These are some of the main factors, they still get caught in fishing gear, and nets, along with the effects of the red tide and algae blooms, which decrease the amount of oxygen in the water. For more information, please see sites listed below.
the manatee is endangered because sometime's boat's will run into them. The boat's propeller will cause injury or even kill the manatee.
There are several different reasons why the manatee is endangered. Some of which are boating accidents where the manatee came too close. Humans have been infringing on the manatees habitat as well.
Manatee are endangered because in Florida the motor boats go over their backs then manatee either die or get a giant scar. The motors also cut the manatee then they die or get a scar.
They are endangered, because they stay by the surface and sometimes boats with motors hit them accidentally, or not and it hurts them, sometimes can be fatal.

The Florida Manatee is also known as a Sea Cow. The Manatee is a mammal that belongs to the Sirenia species. The Sirenia is thought to have evolved from four legged land animals over 60 million years ago, with the closest relative being an elephant. Manatees are mainly herbivores and they inhabit (warm)shallow, marshy coastal areas and rivers. The Florida manatee is able to live in fresh and salt water. Not all Manatee's are able to inhabit both fresh and salt water. Manatee's live in the Carribean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, Amazon Basin and West Africa. The Florida Manatee is on the threatend status in Florida and is endangered at the Federal level.