Manatee
Aug 24 2007, Kanchan

When I saw its picture, this rare and unusual animal fascinated me. A relative of a manatee even dubbed a mermaid, its remnant population is threatened by environmental degradation and occasional entanglement mortality in fishing nets, but now the...

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