Manatees
One of the most endangered marine mammals in the United States is the Florida manatee. The manatees Latin name is Trichechus Manatus and under the class Mammalia and order Sirenia. All living manatees can be found in warm tropical and subtropical waters, usually of the coast of Florida, South America, West Africa, and throughout the Caribbean. Manatees inhabit rivers, canals, lagoons, and connected lakes, and estuaries. They can live in Fresh, Salt, and brackish waters; the Amazonian manatees are the only restricted to the fresh waters. All manatees are herbivores. They like to eat a variety of vegetation floating
Some of the Causes of the dyeing off of the manatees are, natural causes, they are susceptible to cold weather, and diseases and parasites. There are also things that you can do that go beyond the laws. You can join the Adopt-A-Manatee fund, which puts all the profits go into manatee programs. Habitat destruction is another major one, much of the suitable manatees habitats in Florida have been destroyed. This Law forbids hunting, capturing, killing, or harassing these animals. But the highest cause of all are human related. And they're a common knowledge precaution to take such as, Drive motor boats at designated speeds, Be cautioning while fishing and netting, and don't feed the animals in their natural habitat. Some of the things that have been done to try to help preserve these animals include federal and state laws. Florida manatees have been found with fishing lines and crab lines wra!pped around them as well. But there are things we can do about all this to save this wonderful animal. The feed off of over 60 species of plants, such as turtle grass, manatee grass, shoal grass, mangrove leaves algae, water hyacinth, and water hydrilla. ------------------------------------------------------------------------**Bibliography**. Although manatees have no documented predators sharks, alligators, and crocodiles have been know to occasionally attack. They can eat up to 9% of their own body wait daily, which is about 32 to 108lbs.
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