MANATEES

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HABITAT

• Habitat:::::: Manatees can be found in shallow, slow-moving rivers, saltwater bays, coastal areas- where sea grass beds or fresh water vegetation flourish, estuaries

EATS

• EATS::::::Manatees eat over 60 different freshwater and saltwater plants like : floating hyacinth pickerel weed, alligator weed, water lettuce, hydrilla, water celery, ,use grass, mangrove leaves, sea grasses, shoal grasses, turtle grass, and marine algae etc.

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• OTHER FUN FACTS::::: West Indian manatees are large, gray aquatic mammals with bodies that taper to a flat, paddle shaped tail, they also have two forelimbs called flippers, they can live over 60 years and have no natural enemies.

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• DEATHS CAUSED BY::::::: 6 different categories: watercraft collisions, floodgate or canal lock ( animal was crushed and or drowned in these structures, other human related stuff ( fishing hooks, nets, litter, poaching, and monofilament line), perinatal ( died around the time of birth and was not because of human activities), other natural ( cold stress, red tide, gastrointestinal disease, pneumonia, and other diseases), undetermined ( the manatee is to badly decomposed to determine cause of death, the necropsy finding is inclusive, or the manatee carcass was reported and verified but not recovered)

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• WAYS TO HELP THEM::::::To help save them you can join the " save the manatee club" and donate to the club, the donations go to research and creating safe areas for the manatees

RED TIDE PIC.

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• Red tide is a occasion where algal bloom ( large concentrations of aquatic microorganism

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• caused by :::a few species of dinoflagellates and the bloom takes on a red or brown color, red tides are events in which estuarine, marine, or freshwater algae accumulate rapidly in the water column, resulting in coloration of the surface water.

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• How to fix it.
• Clay flocculation left over from the phosphate mining process with water and spraying it on a harmful Algal bloom holds some promise for getting rid of red tides.

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• Manatee sick ?
• HAB ( harmful algal blooms) is toxins that a manatee can be exposed to and it can kill them if the exposure is to high or lasts over a period of time

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• Symptoms:::::
• Symptoms can be that they can lift their heads above water to breathe because of the neurotoxins and it is a excruciating death for the gentle, lumbering vegetarian marine mammals and it kills around 190 manatees a year.