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Manatee

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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THE MANATEE

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Diet
Their diet is only plants, so they are classified as herbivores. Their split lip and flippers help them successfully capture and manipulate the food into their mouths.

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Manatees have four rows of teeth that they use to grind up their food instead of swallowing it whole.

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Manatees live in slow moving rivers, bays, canals, and coastal areas.

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Manatees are not sexually mature until they are about five years old. Then, they may find a mate.

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They are about ten feet long and weigh from eight hundred to one thousand two hundred pounds when full grown.

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Manatees can live up to sixty years.

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Manatees are more closely related to elephants than whales and sea lions.

Serena Hart