Daniel Pauly

Eating a tuna roll at a sushi restaurant should be considered no more environmentally benign than driving a Hummer or harpooning a manatee.

French Scientist

Manatees are found in specific habitats, so it's usually related to marine biology or environmental topics.

Habitat context

When describing manatees, mentioning their large size and paddle-shaped tail helps listeners picture them.

Animal appearance

'Manatee' can be used metaphorically to describe someone moving slowly in a humorous way.

Colloquial use

 going on I think it is scary you know Disney's not going to build a theme park here Ford's not going to build a plant and these manatees are the absolute economic lifeblood of this area we are fishing community we're not a beach town fishing and manatee says why why people

Manatee Death Toll...

 been puzzling over this question for nearly three decades ad began to unravel the mysteries with the help of two captive red manatees trained to perform simple tasks oh yes a simple question is it possible that manatee has can't hear the boats or if they can't hear them

Building a Manatee Boat...

 subspecies of manatee that you may know and floating around the waters in florida so we're going to be learning more about their biology the ecology and what our guest is doing to help protect the antillean manatee and let me tell you we have a fantastic guest um we are

Saving Manatees: What It...

 i thought yes you could see your body maybe she'll come over and say hello conservationists have stepped up efforts to rehabilitate the manatees that are in need of help even releasing this healthy manatee back to its natural home today

Into the Ocean PIPE...

 so I came home and my mom said learn anything new today so I said well did you know that if boat spirit is called a goatee just weird position a man's beard we call him manatee oh and it takes three days to fly to the

5000 Awesome Facts About...

 strikes have been a leading cause of manatee deaths as mammals manatees must frequently come to the surface to breathe air but despite growing up to four meters in length they are difficult to spot from

Gentle Giants Struck by...

 that have lost their body hair, mammals without body hair, are aquatic ones, like the dugong, the walrus, the dolphin, the hippopotamus, the manatee. And a couple of wallowers-in-mud like the babirusa.

Elaine Morgan says we...

 family and i are hitting the road do you guys know the mating call of a manatee to help rebuild our tree welcome to our chestnut tree repair this is a solar powered electric powered beach cleaning

A Nat Geo Earth Day...

 equally those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds waken the day to find that it was manatee but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men

Daydreaming: The bridge...

 we headed to three sister Springs area now this is one of the only areas in the world where you can actually come and have a social interaction with manatee