One or two Picture Days ago, I rose and dressed in a heavy neoprene suit, started up the tender and set out well into a river which is as clear as the water in the tap and off I waited for the sluggish movement of a giant aquatic potato. Yes, there is something unbelievable, I swam with manatees, it is incredible. These slow-moving animals can aggregate in the springs and rivers of Fl that winter and feed on seagrass, bask, and spread delight among tourists who come and watch the cutest, harmless, and rather lovely, sea cows.”
Here in this informative video, we’ll learn more about a fluvial kayak guide in Florida who presented a manatee calf so adorable you can call it a nugget. It is quite surprising to find that a manatee baby is as indistinguishable from any other mammal baby, only in miniature, noisier, and more cherubic-looking than an adult manatee. And given how cute manatees already are, it’s pretty darn adorable. And as if manatees are not cute enough already, well then it is pretty darn adorable.
All About Baby Manatees
Bad mothers, manatees, are pregnant for twelve and fourteen months before they produce calves that are seven pounds in weight at birth. It is essential to swim well from the beginning because being young, they get to the water surface to breathe – as it can be seen, swimming is an elementary means of existence for all marine mammals. What you will notice in this video is that the mantle babies may not know how to swim when they are born and hence need push from their mothers to get to their destination.
They take their young ones for a year or two and the young ones remain very much attached to their mother during the period of weaning, and in the process of learning how to swim, forage and even migration routes. As with any mammals, manatees secrete their offspring’s food, known as milk, through mammary glands situated in ‘axillary’ regions — that is the regions beneath the animals’ forelimbs.
In the whole of this video, one can observe this baby manatee swim around with her little flat tail going round and round and then her mom comes in to ensure that the baby gets to where she needs to be. It is good to see this manatee is in good health, which is well illustrated by the fact that this seems to be her previous injury along her back.
Dangers Facing Manatees
You shall find most of them in Florida rivers and each specimen should appear to be wounded from an incident it could hardly avoid – collision with a boating activity in the Florida rivers – their massive but sluggish bodies splintered across the tubes of speedy boats. At other times these injuries are small while at other times they cause the death of the animal in question.
This tiny baby even has a scar here, the person who made this video does not think that it must be a boating accident; that could not have been this baby manatee because this is way too small to have survived a collision like that. It could just have been a chance to run into a rock or a sharp stick in the river because just like a human toddler, a baby manatee, isn’t always certain where she is headed.
That is why specialists recommend the use of polarized sunglasses to identify things below the water and light speed while boating in the waters inhabited by manatees. Manatees gather in the rivers and springs of the State of Florida especially during winter because their tolerance to cold water is very low.
That is why it is always very advisable to go out for things like little boats like kayaks in the winter and get to see these beautiful and serene animals.