The West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus) and West African manatee (T. senegalensis) spend their lives on the cusp between salt ... Also known as “sea cows,” manatees are the largest ...

Dick's famous 1968 sci-fi novel, 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,' explored blurred lines between ... Do android manatees dream of other cybernetic sea cows?' Deeper techno philosophizing ...

The now-extinct species of dugong, a manatee-like ... Then, the sea cow was picked apart by a tiger shark, which has narrow, non-serrated teeth. Differentiating between marks of active predation ...

A statewide manatee count in 2022 estimated the Florida manatee population at between 8,300 and 11,700 – up slightly from seven years earlier. In 2017, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ...