Manatee General A thread for any manatee pictures you can find

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Here's a pic of some in the underwater observatory in Homosassa Springs, Florida.

>>2397979
Thanks for the pic

I want to hug one

Are their numbers going up? I don't want them to die out ;_;

>Go to Mexico
>Go to facility where we could either swim with manatee's or dolphins
>I did both
>Riding on a dolphin was fucking awesome 10/10 would do again
>Go to the manatee tank
>All it does is sit there and eat lettuce

Why do people like these things again?

>>2398218
They're no longer endangered, but they're still vulnerable.

>>2398219
>Why do people like these things again?
They're fat and cute like pandas, but unlike the pandas, manatees aren't an evolutionary mistake.

I did an essay project on them in 3rd grade and since no one had computers then and had drawn shitty pictures of them my teacher thought I was an idiot, thinking I meant whales. She hung it up anyway and some other teacher took note of it and had me skip a grade and go into fifth grade english.
Suck it, Mrs Peabody.

>>2398219
>all it does is sit there and eat lettuce
What's not to love?

>>2398282
Glad they at least aren't endangered

>>2398212
They're like cute little blobs of fat

>>2398218
I don't want them to either

>>2398300
You don't happen to have those drawings anymore do you?

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>Mr manatee politely asks for this next dance

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Look at it's precious face

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>sea blob

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Blissful manatee

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Fun fact: a group of manatees is called an aggregation

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Graceful blob

Such cuties

>>2399080
Yes

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What about dugongs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c5FHyCQgZg

>>2398427

excellent

>>2399835
As long as it looks like a manatee

>>2399844
Manatees>alligators

>>2399862
Yes

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Swam with these big guys. They act exactly like my old, lazy dog.

>>2400318
Jealous, that sounds great

>>2398218
Apparently there's been like a 400% increase among the Florida population in the last 25 years.

Brett Keane general?

>>2397914
how do these things avoid getting eaten?

>>2398409
Nah, I didn't start keeping my art until I was almost an adult. I'm pretty bummed about it since I remember vividly how I used to draw people in kindergarten, and they looked like koalas.

>>2401983
They're big, and pretty much hang out in brackish water and marshes along the coast.
Boat propellers are a bigger danger than predators.

>>2401988
That's a shame, thanks anyway though I liked the story

>>2400318
Lovely fat walruses that act like cats but dumb like cows.

>>2401983
they usually live in spring water which is too cold for alligators to swim in but whenever theyre in warmer waters theyre food