DESCRIPTION: West Indian manatees are large, gray-brown mammals with bodies that taper to a flat, paddle-shaped tail. They have two flippers with three to four nails on each, and their head and ...

Our Habitat continues our series on Jamaica's endangered species with a look this week at the West Indian Manatee. ALSO called the sea cow, the West Indian Manatee (Trichechus manatus) is ...

15 Manatee Facts 1. Manatees are the teddy bears of the sea. These roly-poly teddy bears clock in at 9 to 13 feet long and typically anywhere from 1000 to 1300 pounds.

A stunning video captured the birth of a West Indian manatee at Royal Burgers' Zoo in Arnhem, the Netherlands, on December 30. The new calf takes the number of manatees in European zoos up to 39.

Although three different manatees are found around the world ― the West Indian (found here), the African manatee and the Amazonian manatee ― only one subspecies is found here.

The North American east coast, including Florida, is home to West Indian manatee. The Amazonian manatee can be found in the Amazon River, while the African manatee lives along the west coast and ...

The West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus), found along the Atlantic coasts of the United States, the Caribbean and Central America, offers a case in point.Once hunted for its meat, hide and oil ...

Although three different manatees are found around the world ― the West Indian (found here), the African manatee and the Amazonian manatee ― only one subspecies is found here.

The West Indian manatee, of which the Florida manatee is a subspecies, was downlisted in 2017 from endangered to threatened. Nearly 2,000 manatees died in Florida in 2021 and 2022—a two-year record.

Florida's growing manatee population is a "dramatic turnaround" from the 1970s, the federal government said as it officially removed the aquatic creatures from the endangered list.The West Indian ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service announced its final rule downlisting the West Indian manatee from endangered to threatened on March 30, 2017, despite hundreds of manatees still dying each year from boat ...