The manatee is a dark grayish beast sometimes thirteen feet long and weighting almost a ton. In north America it may be found in the rivers of Florida. Its shape resembles that of the whale, but it is not related to that huge aquatic mamal. It tail is like a broad, rounded shovel. It head and body are joined by a short and sprinkled with thin hairs.
A manatee’s two front legs , or flippers, and paddle – like and grow quite low on its body. These flippers have shoulder, elbow, and wrist joints and can move in all directions. It ends, or hands, and used to push food toward the mouths. The head looks, quite strange. It round sad little eyes are set in heavy divided into two sections. These section can move toward or away form each other as if they were a pair of jaws. This is a big help in placing food within reach of the actual mouth.
These big, slow, and completely harmless beasts eat various kinds of water plants. They of ten feed quite near the surface. Their front flippers reach out and gather bunches of the plants. Then, with the help of the hands and the divided upper lip, The vegetable dinner is stuffed into the mouth. At mealtime its body floats upright in the water. The manatee looks as thought it is sitting at an invisible table.
The manatee is a dark grayish beast sometimes thirteen feet long and weighting almost a ton. In north America it may be found in the rivers of Florida. Its shape resembles that of the whale, but it is not related to that huge aquatic mamal. It tail is like a broad, rounded shovel. It head and body are joined by a short and sprinkled with thin hairs.A manatee’s two front legs , or flippers, and paddle – like and grow quite low on its body. These flippers have shoulder, elbow, and wrist joints and can move in all directions. It ends, or hands, and used to push food toward the mouths. The head looks, quite strange. It round sad little eyes are set in heavy divided into two sections. These section can move toward or away form each other as if they were a pair of jaws. This is a big help in placing food within reach of the actual mouth.These big, slow, and completely harmless beasts eat various kinds of water plants. They of ten feed quite near the surface. Their front flippers reach out and gather bunches of the plants. Then, with the help of the hands and the divided upper lip, The vegetable dinner is stuffed into the mouth. At mealtime its body floats upright in the water. The manatee looks as thought it is sitting at an invisible table.
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