Greetings – Happy Manatee Awareness Month! To celebrate manatees, here’s a blog on manatee facts. The manatee is a large marine mammal with a paddle-shaped tail and two flippers. Interestingly, the manatee is closely related to elephants. Yours truly is actually a Florida manatee. I’m also known as a West Indian Manatee. The Antillean manatee is also known as a West Indian Manatee.…
Greetings! Here is part 2 of my Marvelous Manatee Facts for you! Now take a look at another 11 fascinating facts all about us manatees… Manatees are Marine Mammals Manatees and dugongs are marine mammals. Marine means we live our entire life in the water and mammal means we breathe air just like humans breathe air. And in…
Greetings! Here are some more awesome manatee facts for you. Florida Manatees, (yours truly :-)) actually belong to the order Sirenia and are a subspecies of the West Indian manatee. The other subspecies of the West Indian manatee is called the Antillean manatee. The United States is the only country where you’ll find the Florida manatee. And since some…
Greetings! In this blog, I’m continuing my manatee trivia for you in the format of a question and answer, true or false. So here is the ninth installment. I know you will really impress your friends and family with your newfound manatee knowledge! Okay – here’s some very cool manatee trivia in the form of…
Greetings! Here is the seventh installment of awesome manatee facts for you. It’s worth repeating that we manatees are very large marine mammals with two flippers and a body tapering down to a paddle-shaped tail. I’ll be talking about the largest relative in the manatee order called, the Sirenians. And I know you’ll be amazed at…
Greetings! Today I bring you the second installment of some really cool manatee facts for you. You’ll definitely impress your friends and family with your newfound manatee knowledge! Manatees are very large marine mammals with two flippers and a body tapering down to a paddle-shaped tail. Ok – let’s put together some cool manatee trivia…
In winter, Florida Manatees enjoy the warm balmy water temperatures of both natural springs and warm water outflows from power plants. Greetings to you! Here is the second installment of my blogs talking about awesome manatee facts. There are actually three types, or species of manatees and unfortunately all three are in danger of eventually…
Florida Manatees also known as West Indian Manatees at Blue Spring State Park – Orange City, Florida Photo: Robert Scott Thayer Greetings! Here’s another one of my blogs on manatee facts. This is the seventh installment, where you’ll find more awesome manatee facts I’ve presented over these last few years! The manatee is a large marine…
The Florida Manatee is a subspecies of the West Indian Manatee. Florida Manatees, (yours truly :-)) actually belong to the order Sirenia and are a subspecies of the West Indian manatee. The other subspecies of the West Indian manatee is called the Antillean manatee. The United States is the only country where you’ll find the…
The largest Sirenian that ever existed was the extraordinary Steller’s Sea Cow. It measured 30 feet in length and weighed in at 10 tons. Greetings! Today I’d like to talk about the extraordinary Steller’s sea cow, which as the largest only cold-water member in the scientific order Sirenia. In this scientific order, you will also…
