Their rough-textured teeth and hard on their teeth, which are continually replaced. An adult can eat 100-150 pounds (45-67 kg) of food each day. Manatees eat water plants with their molars (flat teeth). Manatees are found along the Gulf coast of America (wintering in Florida), and in many waterways in South America. They can live in salt, fresh, or brackish waters Manatees live their lives in the warm, shallow waters along the coast, in estuaries, and in canals. Manatees sleep with the nostrils poking above the water. Manatees do not develop permanent pair bonds they live in small family groups, in small herd of 15 to 20 individuals, or alone. They communicate with each other using clicks and chirps. Manatees are gentle and sometimes social animals. They are slow swimmers who use their two flippers (located close to the head) and a flattened tail to move through the water. Manatees spend their entire lives int he water. North American manatees winter in Florida, as they prefer warm water. The manatee's life span is roughly 60 years. Their nostrils are covered by flaps that close during dives.
Although they can stay underwater for up to 20 minutes, they usually surface every 5 minutes. Manatees breathe air through nostrils into their two lungs. Adults may also have barnacles and/or algae growing on the skin.
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Their skin quickly lightens to gray as they mature. When manatees are new-born, they are gray-black. The average adult manatee grows to be about 10-12 feet (3-3.6 m) long and weighs about 1,000-1,800 pounds (450-800 kg). Manatees are closely related to the elephant and the hyrax (a small mammal that looks like a rodent)! Many years ago, there were legends that sailors, seeing manatees from a long distance, thought they were mermaids. Short whiskers adorn the short, boxy snout. These plant eaters are slow swimmers they have two flippers, each of which has three to four nails on the end (there are no external hind limbs). Manatees are aquatic mammals that are called sea cows (named this by Georg Wilhelm Steller, because they taste like beef).
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