Manatees have a mass of, and mean length of, with maxima of and seen ( the females tend to be larger and heavier ).

Manatees have shorter snouts than their fellow sirenians, the dugongs.

Manatees are the only animal known to have a vascularized cornea.

Manatees have been spotted as far north as Cape Cod, and as recently as the late summer of 2006, one was seen in New York City and Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay, as cited in The Boston Globe.

Manatees, remarkably, have around 600 vibrissae on or around their lips-indeed, it seems that all of their hairs, all over their body, are vibrissae rather than fur ( pelagic hairs ).

West Indian Manatees have been seen in the winter months.

Lions and African Manatees have also recently been confirmed.

Manatees are not territorial and do not have complex predator avoidance behavior, as they have evolved in areas without natural predators.

Manatees ( family Trichechidae, genus Trichechus ) are large, fully aquatic, mostly herbivorous marine mammals sometimes known as sea cows.

Manatees are herbivores and eat over 60 different plant species, such as mangrove leaves, turtle grass, and types of algae.

The arena was the home of the Miami Heat from 1988 – 1999, the Florida Panthers from 1993 – 1998, the University of Miami basketball teams from 1988 – 2003, the Miami Hooters of the Arena Football League from 1993 – 1995, the Miami Matadors of the ECHL in 1998, the Miami Manatees of the WHA2 in 2003, and the Miami Morays indoor football team since 2005.

Manatees comprise three of the four living species in the order Sirenia.

Manatees spend most of the rest of the time grazing in shallow waters at depths of.

Manatees are capable of understanding discrimination tasks, and show signs of complex associated learning and advanced long term memory.

Manatees typically breed once every two years, gestation lasts about 12 months, and it takes a further 12 to 18 months to wean the calf.

Manatees inhabit the shallow, marshy coastal areas and rivers of the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico ( T. manatus, West Indian manatee ), the Amazon Basin ( T. inunguis, Amazonian manatee ), and West Africa ( T. senegalensis, West African manatee ).

Manatees hear on a higher frequency than would be expected for such large marine mammals.

Manatees occasionally ingest fishing gear ( hooks, metal weights, etc.

Manatees can also be crushed in water control structures ( navigation locks, floodgates, etc.

Manatees were traditionally hunted by indigenous Caribbean people.

Manatees can also be viewed in a number of European zoos, such as the Tierpark in Berlin, the Nuremberg Zoo, in Beaval Park Zoo in France and in the Aquarium of Genoa in Italy.

Manatees and the dugong are the only marine mammals classified as herbivores.

A haven for wildlife, the islands and their waters are home to West Indian Manatees, bottlenose dolphins, roseate spoonbills, marsh rabbits and bald eagles.

Manatees can be seen in the spring year-round, but especially in late fall and winter, where the constant 72 ° F ( 23 ° C ) temperature of the spring is much warmer than river water.

The main exhibit in this area is the Zoo's group of Florida Manatees.

Manatees and crocodiles are sometimes seen in the Buttonwood Canal.

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It houses Jaguars, Amazonian Manatees, Amazon river dolphins, and numerous other species of animals and plants.

If he had married her, he'd have been asking for trouble.

`` We've been looking for work, but all the ranchers have turned us down ''.

She seemed to have come such a long distance -- too far for her destination which had wilfully been swallowed up in the greedy gloom of the trees.

A detailed scouring of the entire area revealed nothing beyond a ledge of rocks that might have been the rifleman's hiding place.

Yet had he not visited the girl at Saw Buck he would never have been involved in this latest tangle.

At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;

Their product had been endorsed by Good Housekeeping, the A.M.A., and the Veterinary Journal, among other repositories of higher wisdom, and before much longer if you didn't have a cake of their soap in the john, even your best friends would think you didn't bathe.

`` The commercials have just been for money, there hasn't been any real incentive for me to do them, but in Underwater Western Eye I'd have a chance to act.

If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;

They were married over the week-end, though he was easily sixty and she could not have been even thirty.

( Would she have been able to had she known that the blanket belonged to a young ballet dancer Nicolas had found his first night in one of Walter's marked bars??

It had been a mistake, but anything would have been a mistake, as it turned out.

`` They wouldn't have sold me in the first place if there'd been food enough to go around ''.

The body may have been two or three weeks' dead.

She might have been someone he had once loved.

Benson said, and Ramey wondered how close their thoughts might have been.

And he would have enjoyed it just as much if he had been a Nazi.

The deeds of countless western bandits and outlaws have been glorified almost to the point of hero-worship, but because Billy Tilghman remained strictly on the side of the law throughout his action-packed career, his achievements and the appalling risks he took while taming the West have remained almost unsung.

Something was beginning to stir and come alive in her, too ( it may have been there for a good while, since she was twenty now ; ;

Had Dandy been older or wiser, instinct might have warned him that he would be well advised to flee from the Lalauries' tender care if he valued his life.