The Indians assert that the crocodiles do not go up the Orinoco above the mouth of the Rio Jao, and that the manatees are not even found above the cataract of Maypures.
Small vessels sometimes take in water there; and, what is well worthy of observation, large manatees remain habitually in those spots.
In the evening we passed the mouth of the Cano del Manati, thus named on account of the immense quantity of manatees caught there every year.
Had the authors been better acquainted with the anatomy of the manatees the above suggestion would never have been made, since the tails of the two forms are, so far as known, almost exactly alike.
It was doubtless the general resemblance which the several specimens of the otters and the so-called manatees bear to each other that led Stevens astray.
A rounded tail is, in fact, the first requisite of the genus Manatus, to which both the manatees alluded to belong, in distinction from the forked tail of the genus Halicore.
Manatees are found on the west coast of Africa, and also on the shores of South America, living near the mouths of the larger rivers.
The Manatees (Manatus)[225] are found in the fresh-waters and along the Atlantic coasts of South America and Africa.
In theManatees we have the disappearance of the nails still imperfectly accomplished.
I'm going to put up a net to prevent the manatees from getting at me," announced Bob with a laugh.
Sidenote: A Manatee or Sea Cow (Trichechus latirostris)] Another day while sailing in Barnes Sound we ran across three manatees feeding on a plant resembling eel grass.
I had several times seen manatees in the St. Lucie River, a tributary of Indian River, but nowhere else, and was much surprised to find them in Barnes Sound.
What are these, aftermanatees twelve and fifteen feet long, which still abound in the rivers and lakes of Africa?
It has been conjectured that the ancients derived their idea of the mermaid from the Manatees that may be found on the shores of Africa washed by the Atlantic, or from the Dugongs of the littoral of the Indian Ocean.
But it will have nothing to say of the marvels of the slow decay of a Victoria Regia leaf, or of the spiral descent of a white egret, or of the feelings which Roosevelt and I shared one evening, when four manatees rose beneath us.
This family comprises the Manatees and the Dugongs.
The Herbiverous class includes the Manatees and the Duyongs who live on the weedy, shallow shores around the islands and mouths of rivers, and feed on the sea-weed.
I have done it myself three times with manatees three times the size of these in the story.
The frequent swamping of canoes and skiffs by porpoises, or dolphins, tarpon and manatees are all experiences of my own.
She had been about to say "manatees and alligators," but thought better of it.
Manatees are not especially wild," laughed Mr. Sneed, it being one of the few occasions when he did indulge in mirth.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "manatees" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
