Manatee

__The Manatee Eating Habits__

 * Manatees are herbivores or vegatarians. Manatees feed on many different grasses. They are, manatee grass, turtle grass, and water. Manatees also live in warm water and they are mammals. Manatees use their flippers and lip muscles to eat because they don't have any front teeth.**

**__The Manatees Habitat__**[[image:manatee.jpg width="262" height="187" align="right" link="http://www.savethemanatee.org/"]]

 * The manatee is found in the warm shallow waters of rivers, bays, estuaries, or coastal waters.**

__Facts of the Manatee__

 * 1 Manatees can grow up to 15 ft.


 * 1) 2 They can weigh up to 1,323 pounds.

Here is a picure of Manatees kissing.
 * 1) 3 In the year of 1996 over 200 Florida manatees died because of an alga toxin.**[[image:2_kiss.jpg width="320" height="252"]]


 * Part of the reason Manatees are in danger is because they are either caught up in the engine of a boat and get killed or they are intoxicated with the gas of a boat and usually get very sick and die. Another reason manatees are becoming extinct is because unused boats get taken apart and sold. Now you wouldn't think that was all that bad but if they aren't sold they get dumped into the water.****One of the last reasons Manatees are extinted, is because they get scratches on their back and it swells up and they die. They get scratches on their backs by boats.**


 * If you would like to save the manatees clik on my uper manatee picture, and it will link you to** [|**www.savethemanatees.org**] **or you can just click here.**[[image:2_kiss.jpg width="1" height="1"]][[image:2_kiss.jpg width="2" height="1"]]