Florida Manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris), family Trichechidae, in a freshwater hot spring in Florida, USA.
ENDANGERED.
photograph by Keith Ramos, USFWS
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Dugong Dugong dugon
with golden trevally Gnathanodon speciosus, upper, and sharksucker Echeneis naucrates, lower
Observed by popaul, CC BY-NC
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Can I request Manatee #14839? I got one as a gift recently and it's so charming!
Today's Extra Schleich is:
14839 Manatee
[2021 - ]
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The Odd Pod. Dolphins and a Manatee Swimming and Playing Together
Although dolphins and manatees often share the same waters in Florida, in over 30 years of observations I've never seen them give each other more than a passing glance before this.
Dolphins will often go out of their way to go up to a manatee(s) when they see one, but it is always just for a moment to check it out. As for the manatees, even though they are exceptionally curious and playful, they don't seem to have any interest at all in dolphins.
And so it is that I was amazed to have witnessed this magical moment of interspecies interaction while I was out canoeing. The odd pod looked like they had been swimming together for a while, it was not a brief encounter. The pod swam in together to the area I was canoeing, and when they left about an hour later they left together.
When the dolphins got too far ahead of the manatee, they seemed to pause and wait for the manatee to catch up.
via: See Through Canoe
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Manatees.
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Day 10 of Inktober 2023!
Day 10 is a cute seacow. There’s nothing much to say here.
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obviously I can't include everything. Rip to the various groups I was forced to leave out, including Mesosaurs, my beloveds.
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the setting with twist & the (non-sirenian) harpies is one i don't write in and doesn't really have much of a big story, similar to siren it has a bunch of small unrelated stories in various parts of the world but the major theme is cooperative relationships between regular humans and monsters. they have a common goal but also i wanted to explore different ways that cooperation could happen (willingly or not) and the various manifestations of human and monster relationships. sometimes antagonistic sometimes not. cuinn the harpy willingly chose to protect a human village; twist was trapped and forced to work. i've already drawn the work they do but i'll talk about it laterrr here's one of the harpy falconers anyway
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'pump them full of psychotropic drugs' is a new one for me (posted on a video of orphaned manatees being bottle fed)
That feeling when the psychotropic drugs kick in 😵💫 joking aside, it’s pretty pathetic that people still insist on believing this.
As for manatees, very, very few of them are permanently non-releasable, especially when compared with cetaceans. SeaWorld has great success releasing orphaned manatee calves, and most of their manatees on public display are orphans or other rescues getting nice and fat prior to release.
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Happy #ManateeAppreciationDay!
1. Plate 7 in Biologia Centrali-Americana: Zoology, Botany and Archaeology, 1879-1915
2. Plate 37 in The Wild Beasts of the World, c.1909
Click here for more info on Manatee Appreciation Day!
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dude are you telling me that manatees are more related to elephant shrews than to other aquatic mammals like seals?? are you /srs? ?
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Florida Manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris), family Trichechidae, in a freshwater hot spring in Florida, USA.
ENDANGERED.
photograph by Andrew Zimmerman
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Florida manatee Trichechus manatus latirostris
Observed by nonbinary-naturalist, public domain
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Sirens of the Sea
Here’s something different; not cetaceans, but marine mammals for sure. A fun challenge from one of last year’s commission. Definitely a ways outside of my normal comfort zone, but I think they turned out okay. (Dugong and Manatee experts will no doubt be able to spot some blaring mistakes lol). I especially enjoyed painting the Dugong. Very weird, but cute at the same time. And their heads have a nice shapeliness to them. That’s nice for drawing. The manatee by contrast felt a bit more “blobby” and hard to make look right. I hope you’ll like these two Sirens - the order’s scientific name coming from a legend regarding their discovery: lonely sailors would have mistaken them for mermaids, like the sirens of Greek Mythology.
We’re almost through the (rather huge) list of illustrations from last year’s commissions by the way. Just baleen whales to go - and then..? I’m not sure because I still haven’t painted anything this year. A bit appalling how busy things stay. Hopefully soon.
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Reading about extinct sirenians and found this guy and immediately heard his voice
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A manatee taking a breath.
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