Manatee
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The manatee is an endangered marine mammal found in coastal areas and rivers. There are three living species that inhabit the Amazon River, West Indies, and West Africa. Human activities like boat strikes and pollution are threatening manatee populations. Efforts are needed to clean up habitats, educate people, and prevent manatee injuries and deaths to help protect these gentle herbivores.
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- 2. *The manatee is an endangered creature and we must take care and watch over them. *Human actions are causing the manatee to disappear. *So, to see manatee in their natural habitat can be a very exiting experience.
- 3. *Is a creature that has the form of a beautiful cow fur obese, with legs like those of a seal, with which to drive and swim swiftly in the sea. They also have a small but bright eyes and bright. *There are three living species of Manatee * Sireni-the Amazonia manatee *The west Indian manatee *The west African manatee *The name manatee is a taino word, a pre-colombian people that lived in the Caribbean, and it means breast.
- 4. *They are mammals. *They need air to breathe, so they rise to the surface to take air. *They hold their breath for 20 minutes no more. *It can measure 3 meters long. *It can weight 1 ton and a half.
- 5. *Abundant freshwater aquatic vegetation flat, less that 5 meters deep. *Near the mouth of the rivers by lake or calm water coastal areas in Puerto Rico. *The manatees generally avoid areas where temperatures fall below 20 degrees. *They live in water bodies that have sea-grass beds.
- 6. *The manatees are herbivore and feed on plants about 60 different types such as mangrove leaves or algae. *An adult manatee can eat normally up to 9% of its weight (about 50 kg) per day. *The Antilleans manatees also eat fish from nets.
- 7. *Every 2-5 years, the female gives birth to one calf at birth which weighs 87 pounds, measure 90-120 cm long. *Breeding depends entirely on their mother and stay with her for at least two years. *Only the female takes care of the breeding, giving milk until their teeth are well trained to eat hard food.
- 8. *The Manatee’s only predator is man. *Fast boats, often beat them or kill, seriously injure or destroy the habitat. * The garbage man throw to sea becomes each time more pollution to the manatee habitat. *There are many times that the manatee dies because of contamination liquid: as gasoline, oil, peroxide, and other things that manatees mistake for food.
- 9. * *Launch campaigns about Prevention on Polluting the Waters where manatees live. *Dialogs about how we can prevent manatee injuries and deaths. *Clean the areas where manatees can survive .
- 10. *In Vieques there are places we can find information about things that happen to manatees. *In such places we can find information about endangered creatures, fish and plants that you might want to know. *Tourists who come to Vieques want to see places where fish are and can go see them, feed them and swim with them. *
- 11. *We go clean up the ocean, the manatee habitat so that the community create conscience. *We make trips to the main island where we learn how we can prevent the deaths of manatees… *We go out to places where we see lots of pollution and the consequences in the areas where the manatee lives.
- 12. *Joyuda, Cabo Rojo *Bahía Sucia, Cabo Rojo *La Parguera, Lajas *Area of Río Guanajibo, Mayagüez *