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MANATEES
Ana Belen Rodriguez
Adrian Lopez
Elza Rosales
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Speech Lab
General Descriptions
Manatee
Introduction
Types of Manatee
WORD MEANING
Manatee means “with breast” and his scientific name is “Trichechus”, but they must be remembered as the sea cows.
Physical
Personality
- Measure up to 13 feet long
- Weigh as much as 1.300 pounds
- Only animal known to have a vascular cornea
- Hair color is brownish gray
- Thick wrinkled skin.
- Herbivores and eat over 60 different plants species.
- More than 50% of the day sleeping submerged
- Solitary animals.
- Capable of understanding tasks and signs of complex associative learning.
- Good long-term memory
- The Amazonia manatee:
- Inhabits in the Amazon River
- Never ventures into salt water
- The West African manatee:
- West coast of Africa from the Senegal River to the Kwanza River.
- The West Indian manatee:
- Migrates to the Florida Rivers
- Move freely between salinity extremes.
Why does animal abuse exist, when they were not expelled from Paradise, we were?
Under the sea - Manatees
Causes of death
Causes of extinction
VIDEO
Manatees
MAIN CAUSE OF DEATH
- Human-related issues, such as
habitat destruction and human objects.
As a result:
- They have cutting propeller scars in their backs and under those circumstances they don’t live more than 2 weeks.
- They ingest fishing gear, like hooks and metal weights, while feeding; affecting their digestive system and slowly kill it.
For this reason:
- The World Conservation Union has listed the Manatees as vulnerable to extinction.
WORST VIOLENT COLLISION
- Driven boats and ships,
leading to disfigurement and even death
Manatees in History
Legends
Christopher Colon
Mermaid
Dr. Mamaa Entsy -> Female Manatee looks like a woman
- When they surface to inhale fresh air at night.
- When they are spotted in night
West African
Folklore
OLDEST LEGEND
- Manatees were considered sacred and thought to have been once human.
- The legend include that Manatees showed respect and honor.
- Connections of the manatees to wisdom.
- Oldest creatures in the waters; therefore,they were the widest in the waters since they were able to survive beyond all others.
- Manatee is the protector of mermaids in the water; for this reason, the similarity between both.
That's why..
Arriving to America he saw a Manatee, but he confused it with a mermaid.
- Killing a Manatee was once considered a taboo and required penance
Conclusion
Manatees
KILLING A MANATEE
- Destroys a cultural believe
- Affects African History