The manatee is one kind of appearance quite strange animal, looks a little similar with the whale, but they have the short neck; Their hind legs are vestigial, and their forelimbs are more like fins; The overall appearance is spindle-shaped.According to the classification, manatees belong to Mammalia, Sirenia, Sirenia, Sirenia genus, including three kinds of manatees, namely American manatee, Amazon manatee and African manatee.Therefore, manatees belong to mammals, and their breathing and reproductive characteristics are in line with the basic characteristics of mammals, that is, breathing with lungs and breeding with viviparity.
From the point of view of living environment, manatees mostly live in the sea, belonging to a marine mammal, basically in the shallow sea, rarely to the deeper sea.In terms of size, manatees are still relatively large, with adult manatees ranging in length from 2.5 to 4 meters and weighing about 360 kilograms.From the point of view of feeding habits, the main food of manatees is aquatic plants in the water.Because of their large size, they eat a lot of water plants every day.
Under normal circumstances, the manatee's life span is relatively long, can live for about 60 years.There are also manatees that live longer, such as the record of a manatee in captivity that lived for 69 years, which is a longer life.In real life, sometimes the life span of manatees is not so long, because there are many factors that affect their life span, human activities are an important factor, human hunting is an important reason for their direct death.At present, the number of manatees is relatively small.
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