Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. These docile marine mammals are categorized into three distinct species based on location, National Geographic reports. The North ...
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay’s founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Few creatures better embody the notion of peaceful coexistence ...
Ever since his first hard-won sightings of African manatees, award-winning marine biologist Aristide Takoukam Kamla has been devoted to protecting the little known and at risk aquatic mammals. African ...
WWF-West African Marine Ecoregion Programme today signed a new intergovernmental agreement to conserve the West African Manatee and Small Whales in Western Africa and Macaronesia. The conservation ...
Two African manatees given a new life in the UAE a year ago are drawing the crowds at The National Aquarium Abu Dhabi. Nyokoti and Sengou were relocated from South Korea by the aquarium and it led to ...
Spanning around 10 feet in length and weighing 1,000 pounds on average, manatees are the gentle giants of water. In some cases, the "sea cow" can grow up to 13 feet long and weigh 3,500 pounds, ...
Ever since his first hard-won sightings of African manatees, award-winning marine biologist Aristide Takoukam Kamla has been devoted to protecting the little known and at risk aquatic mammals. The ...