Florida Manatee Description The Florida Manatee has wrinkly

Florida Manatee Description The Florida Manatee has wrinkly grayish brownish skin l Face: l -Tiny Eyes -Big Flat mouth with whiskers It’s nickname is the sea cow- it looks and acts like a cow l Body Parts: l -Big Flat Round Tail -Two Flat Flippers -3 -4 nails per flipper

Florida Manatee Diagram This is a diagram of the Florida Manatee

Getting Food First, Florida manatees hold a plant with its flipper. l Next, it uses its lips to pull off the leaves. l Then, they chew the leaves with their big flat teeth. l When the Florida manatee is a baby, it feeds on its mother’s milk. l A Baby Florida Manatee Feeding on its Mother’s Milk A Florida Manatee Eating plants

Florida Manatee’s Eating Facts l l l Florida manatees eat a lot of sea grass. Florida Manatees have to eat 6 to eight percent of their own bodyweight in food. Florida Manatees spend 5 to 8 hours a day eating. Florida manatees eats water plants such as water lettuce. Florida manatees are herbivores

Florida Manatee’s Size and Weight l Size: -Adult 10 -12 feet long -calf 3 -5 feet at birth l Weighs usually in between 1, 500 -1, 800 pounds at adult hood.

Florida Manatee’s Color l Has grayish brownish skin l Has gray eyes and gray whiskers l At birth, pinkish grayish skin, changes to gray as reach adult hood.

The Area Florida Manatees Live Manatees live in or around the state of Florida in warm waters. l The temperature in the water has to be at lest 68 degrees Fahrenheit or they die. l In the wintertime, they migrate to warm water springs and man-made sources of warm water, such as power -plant discharges. l

Florida Manatee’s Adaptations l Needs two flippers to pull itself across the water l Pull plants with nails and bite them with mouth l Pushes flippers back and forth to swim

How Have Florida Manatees Become Extinct l People: l Cut down plants to build houses. l Run them over with speedboats when they come up to breathe. l Throw pollution into the sea which they eat it.

Protecting the Florida Manatees l Make signs telling drivers not to go in certain areas or slow down l Wildlife Parks taking sick and hurt manatees healing them l Charity Save the Manatee is earning money to help manatees