Manatee

Sea cows, sounds strange, isn't it? Manatee or dugong, the so-called dugong or fish tale, is a medium-sized marine animal. Although the Vietnamese fishermen say they are "fish", in fact, this is a kind of mammals that live in the sea. This is an interesting legend, seaman who sees manatees in western countries, they think they are fish They should be born of the legend, "Mermaid" or "Mermaid" once upon a time.

1. Manatees and understanding

The manatee is what look like?

Manatees are mammals living in the ocean, gray skin, very close to the elephant connection. Unlike in the terrestrial animal such as cattle or cattle sea hare, not too much hair. The mother's delicate skin, only a few feathers scattered on the skin. Their head is round, two small eyes and a big mouth. Their limbs like oars, no nails.

Adult sea cows, ca. 2,7m - 4m from 250 to 300kg pounds. You are the manatee's growth of about 3 feet, weighing 20 35kg.

With the direction of manatee swimming on the tail. It changes direction with two forelimb swimming. Swim slowly, about six mph speed equivalent to bicycle travel the sea cow was slow, but can be transmitted over a long distance in 600 kilometers - can be a The bees for several days. A lot of evidence, the manatee living in regional boundaries in our country, in the Kien Giang Province (South), Guangning (North), show that the manatee has the ability to immigrants crossing the border [2].

Manatees communicate with each other's voice, voice low, or high range sound like a dog.

Do manatees eat what?

Manatee animal eats plants. Most love food is in the manatees. Every day they eat a lot of seaweed large (about 28-40 kilograms of seaweed) have enough energy. The manatee bones below the water heavy help find eating eat grass and sea, the manatee has upper and lower direction of food. They extracted two teeth and chewing grass of the sea.

The growth of manatees?

From the 13-15 months of pregnancy. You were born the first manatee children swim in the water on the surface to breathe air feeding, will follow you forever, until it was 1 or 2 years old. After birth, I also hurriedly manatees eat grass N we. Adults, from the age of 6-17, every 3 - 7 years.

Life is a kind of high age are manatees. In the favorable environmental conditions of the equipment, they can live up to 70 years or more.

Do manatees live in where?

Manatee life is lonely, although sometimes they also focus on personal life.

Love life in the Gulf and the manatee ranch, thermocline ditches, mangrove-covered areas, landing in the island covers. This is the grass, the sea is usually large.

2. Manatee how?

The sea had a significant reduction in the number of cattle, even in these places too much. The manatees have disappeared in the island of Taiwan in such a place, maples... Manatees in the international red book, in the high-risk group of extinction. In the "Vietnam manatee red book" list is a critically endangered species, developed to prohibit all forms of.

Previously, the manatee popular in Vietnam Ha Long Bay beach area, Qinghe, Kunlun, wells. Current estimates are only about 10 people living in Kunlun about 100-300 and lives in Dao Phu Quoc, the largest I hope [4].

3. Why?

One of the reasons leading to a severe reduction of state measurement in Vietnam around the world is like the manatee for hunter/overfishing. In addition, the marine pollution source - the cause of seagrass depletion C is the manatees eat is one of the reasons Bi n pushed cattle to the brink of extinction [five].