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By: Claire Haliburton |
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Meghan Martin |
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West
Indian Manatee |
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Scientific Name: Trichechus Manatus |
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He is
gray and brownish.They have wrinkled skin and short front flippers.They are
2-4 metres long and weigh up to 2900 kilograms(2.9 tonnes) |
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Manatees
eat seaweed, sea grass and water hyacinths. They are vegetarians. When they
are calves they drink their mother’s milk. |
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They
live in Florida, The Caribbean, Northern South America, and The Atlantic
coast to Central Brazil in coastal shallow waters and river inlets. |
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1.Manatee’s live to be years in captivity. |
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2.Sailors used to think that they were mermaids. |
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3.Manatee’s are extremely slow breeders, at the
most they produce one calf every two years. |
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4. The calves are the size of an average 5 year
old. |
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5. Manatee’s consume 40 kg (88 lbs.) of plants
per day. |
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6.Some people place manatees in plant filled
channels to clean them out. |
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http://www.cryptomundo.com/wp-content/uploads/manatee1.jpg |
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http://www.starfish.ch/photos/plants-Pflanzen/Seagrass.jpg |
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http://www.attractionsmagazine.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/orphan-manatee62508.jpg |
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http://www.savethemanatee.org/ |
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http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://z.about.com/d/miami/1/0/1/3/Kissing_Manatees_USDA.jpg&imgrefurl=http://miami.about.com/od/photosofmiami/ig/Miami-Wildlife/Kissing-Manatees.htm&usg=__Roy8M68TYXGWifysLXKrhlc_Ij8=&h=286&w=400&sz=12&hl=en&start=1&um=1&tbnid=nAIPTI99PR0gLM:&tbnh=89&tbnw=124&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dkissingmanatees%26hl%3Den%26um%3D1
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PtJvNVrWkh4/SIpFSaRv2cI/AAAAAAAAAEc/i05DEF1rwD4/s400/Save%2BThe%2BManatee.jpg |
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Notes
