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African manatee

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The shape of an African manatee's body is such that it is "full around the middle and narrowing to a paddle-shaped tail". The African manatee is gray in color, with small, colorless hairs around its body. However, algae and other tiny organisms often grow on them so that the manatees appear brown or green-ish. Calves, however, are darker in color when they are very young.[2][5][6] In length, African manatees measure up to 4.5 meters (approximately 14.6 feet), and they weigh approximately 360 kilograms (790 pounds).[3] African manatees are extremely slow, moving at between 4.8 and 8 kilometers (only 3–5 miles) an hour, unless they fear predators, at which time the manatee can travel at speeds of approximately 32 kilometers (20 miles) an hour. The African manatee's large forelimbs, or flippers, are used to paddle and to bring food to the manatee's mouth, after which the vegetation is chewed by the manatee's strong molars, which are the only teeth the African manatee has. Each jaw has 2 vestigial incisors when the manatee is born, which it loses as it matures.[6] If the African manatee's molars happen to fall out, new molars grow in their place. The manatee's flippers, which bear nails, are also used "to embrace and touch other manatees". The African manatee does not have any hindlimbs.[5][7][8][9] By looking at the exterior of the African manatee, one would not be able to distinguish it from the American manatee. Contrastingly, the exterior of the African manatee differs from that of the last type of manatee, the Amazonian manatee, because the Amazonian manatee has characteristic white markings on its abdomen.[8]

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