Whereas the goat, dog, cow, and cat are domesticated, the antelope, leopard, elephant, waterbuck, manatee, and hippopotamus must be hunted. |
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Native animals range from the jaguar and howler monkey to the manatee, and there are more than 290 species of birds. |
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Imagine what a giraffe, or an elephant, or a manatee looked like to the first Europeans to see them. |
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I half-expected him to give each manatee a friendly slap across the back, he reminded me so much of a local politician courting his constituents. |
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One manatee took a shine to me and wouldn't leave my end of the canoe, nuzzling up to me and trying to touch my hand. |
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In recent years, a manatee traveled to New York and another swam up the Mississippi River! |
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I'd like a pygmy hippo for overland journeys, and a manatee for underwater travel. |
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The presence of the manatee and the hippopotamus in the lower levels of the stratigraphic profile at the Ogoloma site is also significant. |
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The sea cow, a relative of the manatee, is proof that tasting good can be hazardous to a species' health. |
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In recent years, Florida boaters have had to comply with a proliferation of no-wake zones and manatee sanctuaries. |
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He actually adopted a tree in the tropical rainforest and a manatee down in Florida. |
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Overall it looked like a great snake, a large Newfoundland dog, a steam yacht, a horse, a Florida manatee, a submarine periscope, a whale, etc., etc. |
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The other stamps in the set depict the manatee and the royal antelope. |
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They were followed by a guinea pig, a hedgehog, a manatee, and a whale, which are considered to be the core member species of the mammalian radiation. |
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Like its relative the manatee, the dugong's numbers are declining, with hunting, oil pollution, land reclamation and other human activities the causes. |
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The manatee eats floating or submerged aquatic plants or terrestrial plants of stream shores, which the animal seizes by using its forelimbs. |
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There are three species of manatees, including the West Indian manatee. |
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People come for fishing-boat trips, for manatee watching, or for scuba diving and snorkelling to view the exotically coloured corals. |
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Mr Dodman introduced the conservation strategy for the West African manatee. |
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The manatee was covered by several other MEAs, but no specific, international instrument existed yet. |
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Its aim had been to propose an action plan for the conservation and management of the West African manatee. |
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The manatee was a good flagship species, occurring across a range of wetlands and its presence was a sign of the health of the ecosystems. |
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Conduct a critical review of existing regional and national policies related to manatee conservation. |
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Integrate manatee conservation into training programmes of schools, universities and training centres. |
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No interpretation would be available in the manatee working group and French would be the working language. |
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One of these initiatives involves the production of manatee stuffed toys and employs the daughters of former poachers. |
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In this area lives the most endangered marine mammal in Brazil: the manatee. |
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Capturing a manatee is like lassoing a bucking bronco, only underwater. |
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The reduction of pressures on manatee populations was a priority. |
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Establish a regional manatee network with active engagement of appropriate institutions and resource persons for information sharing and exchange at national, regional and international levels. |
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Moreover, the fate of the manatee in the Delta is far from secure. |
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All three species of manatee are listed by the World Conservation Union as vulnerable to extinction. |
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From manatee hides, Native Americans made war shields, canoes, and shoes, though manatees were predominantly hunted for their abundant meat. |
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However, in Flamingo village, it is said that seeing a manatee gives 'happiness and success', and when somebody kills a manatee, only a ritual ceremony can preserve him from a malediction. |
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According to fishermen, such a practice increases the chances to capture the manatee and protects the hunter against any malediction which may occur. |
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A five-year review by the agency of manatee populations in Florida and Puerto Rico found that the species no longer fit the criterion to be deemed endangered: immediate risk of extinction. |
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One of its strangest anecdotes is about Mark Clark, an American general in the second world war, being served up the last inhabitant of the Naples aquarium, a baby manatee. |
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Expansion of the site also enhance the protection of key threatened species including giant arapaima fish, the Amazonian manatee, the black caiman, and two species of river dolphin. |
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The FWC's Red Tide Manatee Morality report indicates that 18 manatee carcasses tested positive for red tide poisoning in 2011 and 5 others were suspected of such toxicity. |
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I was researching a story about Florida, so of course, in the line of duty, I had to investigate the tourism industry. Anyway, the manatee nuzzled me and then swam around and tickled my toes. |
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The Nariva Swamp, which has a varied bird and mammal population including the manatee, has similarly come under threat despite its protected status, especially from illegal rice farms. |
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Other preliminary steps included the establishment of an expert network for West African manatee that could help in turning the Strategy into real conservation action. |
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On 7 June 2006, Florida's wildlife commission voted to take the manatee off the state's endangered species list. |
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It's illegal to ride a manatee in Florida or sell a box turtle in Indiana, but you can pet a bear cub in Michigan. |
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He called for a time frame to be established and for the manatee to be listed on Appendix I. The Wildlife Trust supported this sentiment and urged the development of an Action Plan for the Manatee. |
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The oldest manatee in captivity was Snooty, at the South Florida Museum's Parker Manatee Aquarium in Bradenton, Florida. |
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A friendly manatee may swim right up and touch your face with his. |
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He explained that after a great deal of work on the manatee, a strategy developed by several organisations under the leadership of Wetlands International for the species was close to completion. |
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Community-based manatee sanctuaries had been established in Chad and some relocation work had been undertaken in the Senegal River to move individuals from dwindling pools to the main river channel. |
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Sensitise decision makers, local authorities and local communities, about political and regulatory provisions for manatee conservation, and encourage their implementation. |
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Determine important areas for manatees, especially relating to movements, feeding and mating, and develop mechanisms to reduce manatee pressures in these areas. |
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Promote application of legislation relating to manatee conservation at a regional level through implementation of international conventions and trans-border regulations. |
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The Park has increased its educational, monitoring and law enforcement efforts concerning the boaters, which also appears to benefit the manatee population. |
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He noted that elephants are part of an ancient African radiation of animals, including the hyrax, golden mole, rdvark, and manatee. |
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Born at the Miami Aquarium and Tackle Company on July 21, 1948, Snooty was one of the first recorded captive manatee births. |
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Endangered marine species include the manatee, seals, sea lions, turtles, and whales. |
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At any given time, a manatee typically has no more than six teeth in each jaw of its mouth. |
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Females have two teats, one under each flipper, a characteristic that was used to make early links between the manatee and elephants. |
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Consuming such an amount requires the manatee to graze for up to seven hours a day. |
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The manatee does not have front teeth, however, behind the lips, on the roof of the mouth, there are dense, ridged pads. |
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The West Indian manatee migrates into Florida rivers, such as the Crystal, the Homosassa, and the Chassahowitzka Rivers. |
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Fossil remains of Florida manatee ancestors date back about 45 million years. |
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Overall, predation does not present a significant threat to the survival of any manatee species. |
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Some are concerned that the current situation is inhumane, with upwards of 50 scars and disfigurements from vessel strikes on a single manatee. |
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Many large boats emit very low frequencies, which confuse the manatee and explain their lack of awareness around boats. |
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According to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, approximately 99 manatee deaths each year are related to human activities. |
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There are a number of manatee rehabilitation centers in the United States. |
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The American alligator, American crocodile, Florida panther, and manatee can be found in Everglades National Park in the southern part of the state. |
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A distinction of this type may become useful for the analysis of a potential contrast between words such as humanity, chicory, shivery and manatee, chickaree, shivaree. |
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That made him uniquely suitable for manatee research and education. |
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The manatee has a tested frequency range of 8 kilohertz to 32 kilohertz. |
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Eating gritty vegetation abrades the teeth, particularly the enamel crown, however, research indicates that the enamel structure in manatee molars is weak. |
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To compensate for this, manatee teeth are continually replaced. |
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A manatee was spotted in the Wolf River harbor near the Mississippi River in downtown Memphis in 2006, though it was later found dead 10 miles downriver in McKellar Lake. |
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It is illegal under federal and Florida law to injure or harm a manatee. |
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As such he was the only manatee at the aquarium, and one of only a few captive manatees in the United States that was allowed to interact with human handlers. |
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In January 2016, there were 43 manatee deaths in Florida alone. |
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