[Catmom]

Oh...The huge manatee!

[Vaquero]

2 sea cows left. The manatee and the dugong. There was a huge cold water one that lived in AK waters 200+ years ago. Steller’s sea cow.

The species was quickly wiped out by the sailors, seal hunters, and fur traders who followed Bering's route past the islands to Alaska, who hunted it both for food and for skins, which were used to make boats. It was also hunted for its valuable subcutaneous fat, which was not only used for food (usually as a butter substitute), but also for oil lamps because it did not give off any smoke or odour and could be kept for a long time in warm weather without spoiling. By 1768, 27 years after it had been discovered by Europeans, Steller’s sea cow was extinct.

I CAN believe it's not butter.

Slow moving, slow witted. I'm surprised the Dugongs and Manatees are not extinct

[Cowboy Bob]

Speed bump shaped?

I’d say a python is speed bump shaped, not a manatee

[Moonman62]

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is reviewing whether the manatee should be reclassified as a “threatened” species, which would allow some flexibility for federal officials as the species recovers while maintaining most of the protections afforded to animals listed as endangered. …

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The alligator is now plentiful yet it still receives protection. Schoolchildren are taught to get all weepy about the Florida panther, even though it’s an ordinary North American cougar.

[abb]

[camle]

i can see rosie, michelle, hillary, et. al. getting nervous

[Straight Vermonter]

If you haven’t eaten manatee you haven’t been living.

[fungoking]

The Brevard County Manatees Class A minor leage baseball team....”fear the Sea Cow!”

[JRandomFreeper]

So they are back on the menu?

/johnny

[Oztrich Boy]

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Should have known they were in trouble as soon as big tobacco started losing in Washington. If that lobby lost, what chance does theirs have.