#sirenian

[mammalianmammals]

 Florida Manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris), family Trichechidae, in a freshwater hot spring in Florida, USA.

ENDANGERED.

photograph by Keith Ramos, USFWS

#manatee #sirenian #trichechus #trichechidae #mammal #animals #nature #north america #ocean

[inatungulates]

Dugong Dugong dugon

with golden trevally Gnathanodon speciosus, upper, and sharksucker Echeneis naucrates, lower

Observed by popaul, CC BY-NC

#Dugong dugon #dugong #Sirenia #Dugongidae #sirenian #non-ungulate #fish #Echeneis naucrates #sharksucker #Gnathanodon speciosus #golden trevally #Africa #Egypt #Indian Ocean #Red Sea

[schleichoftheday]

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 - ]

#schleich #toyblr #toycore #sirenian #manatee

[typhlonectes]

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

#florida #ocean #marine biology #marine mammals #mammal #dolphin #cetacean #manatee #sirenian #nature #video #north america

[vickysaurus]

Manatees.

#manatee #sirenian #mammal #palaeoblr #senckenberg museum

[lydiaskyeleaf]

Day 10 of Inktober 2023!

Day 10 is a cute seacow. There’s nothing much to say here.

#sea creatures #sea cow #inktober #inktober 2023 #seacow #seacows #sea cows #inktober 2023 day 10 #inktober day 10 #procreate #procreate art #digital art #illustration #sirenian #sea cow art #seacow art #cute #cute art #sea #ocean #sea art #ocean art

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

obviously I can't include everything. Rip to the various groups I was forced to leave out, including Mesosaurs, my beloveds.

#tetrapods #marine reptiles #marine mammals #penguins #mosasaurs #plesiosaurs #cetaceans #sirenians #pinnipeds #desmostylians #thalattosuchians #dyrosaurids #pliosaurs #turtles

[ranticore]

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

#one thing u might notice about me is that my favourite theme is the almost-human. the thing that's not quite human or has transcended #humanity or exists only to mimic it. it's why i insist on calling the sirenians humans when lbr here... nobody truly thinks that. #in this setting all monsters have human or human-like faces due to some disaster/curse/whatever turning a subset of the population into #monsters generations ago. not that anyone knows this. siren who what never heard of it #ice storm over kosa

[orcinus-veterinarius]

'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.

#I’ve actually been to their manatee icu #it’s pretty incredible #including ​the parts that aren’t offered as part of public tours #one of the patients at the time was a pregnant female who was released and gave birth to a healthy calf in the wild #manatees #sirenians #seaworld #wildlife rehab #ara insanity #answered asks #batplushies

[arthistoryanimalia]

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!

#manatee #manatees #sirenians #marine mammals #mammals #natural history art #scientific illustration #sciart #book art #book plate #lithograph #19th century art #20th century art #British art #European art #Manatee Appreciation Day #animal holiday #animals in art

[fishtomale]

dude are you telling me that manatees are more related to elephant shrews than to other aquatic mammals like seals?? are you /srs? ?

#mish.txt #decided to look up taxonomic classification of sirenians and wow

[mammalianmammals]

 Florida Manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris), family Trichechidae, in a freshwater hot spring in Florida, USA.

ENDANGERED.

photograph by Andrew Zimmerman

#manatee #sirenian #trichechus #trichechidae #mammal #animals #nature #north america

[inatungulates]

Florida manatee Trichechus manatus latirostris

Observed by nonbinary-naturalist, public domain

#Trichechus manatus latirostris #Florida manatee #Sirenia #Trichechidae #sirenian #manatee #North America #United States #Florida

[namu-the-orca]

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. 

#scientific illustrations #illustrations #Dugong #Dugong dugon #West African manatee #manatee #Trichechus senegalensis #sirenia #sirenians #sirens #marine mammals #digital art

[zacharialend]

Reading about extinct sirenians and found this guy and immediately heard his voice

#ahm jest a tater. #a sweet tater #but a tater ah ayum #paleontology #sirenian evolution #gonna be a manatee some day #but for now #jest a sweet ol’ tater

[vickysaurus]

A manatee taking a breath.

#manatee #sirenian #mammal #zoo