The Amazonian manatee is classed as ‘vulnerable’ by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and is protected under Brazilian law. Scientists aren’t sure how many ...

The Amazonian manatee belongs to the same genus as the West Indian and West African manatees (Trichechus manatus and T. senegalensis), but unlike those better-known species, lives only in ...

Banner image: An Amazonian manatee in a zoo. Image by Chris Muenzer via Flickr (CC BY 2.0). You can’t see them to count them, but Amazonian manatees seem to be recovering ...

Amazonian manatees—the smallest, at eight to nine feet long and weighing between 650 and a thousand pounds—are the only ones that live entirely in fresh water, in rivers darkened by sediment ...

CAXIUANA NATIONAL FOREST, Brazil (AP) — Deep in silence, as if under a spell, children watch intently as Bacuri, a young Amazonian manatee, glides around a small plastic pool. When he surfaces ...

Young Amazonian Manatee Returned To Wild. ScienceDaily. Retrieved October 3, 2024 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2002 / 03 / 020311080515.htm Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution.

The Amazonian manatee is the region’s largest mammal but is rarely seen, much less up close. The reasons for this are twofold: The manatee has acute hearing and will vanish into the murky water ...

The Amazonian manatee is the region’s largest mammal but is rarely seen, much less up close. The reasons for this are twofold: The manatee has acute hearing and will vanish into the murky water ...

Environmentalists hope that by engaging local communities, Bacuri and others like him will be spared. The Amazonian manatee is the region’s largest mammal but is rarely seen, much less up close.