Gabby

__Dancing Crazy __ On Sunday I was getting ready for dance. Then mum dropped me off over at St Johns hall.

//**__The Manatees Life Cycle __**// Millions of years ago Manatees had large nails to crawl around on the hard ground and right now in our days you can still see their large nails.

Manatees breath smells so so bad from all the soggy sea grass they nibble on. The grey Manatee has really small teeth so they push the grass into their big mouthwith their tiny flippers.

The huge Manatee never leaves the warm clear water. They began to live in the water 35 million years ago. When Manatees had short legs and lived on hard ground scientist said they were related to elephants some how.

Their bodies are so big nothing really attacks them. One small baby takes 2 years to be born.

Every couple of minutes the large Manatee comes up above the warm water to take a breath. They swim to about 5 to 8 kilometres per hour. The big Manatee measures up to 4 metres long and weighs about 590 kilograms.

Manatees are fairly large mammals and I hope people start caring about them soon. Hopefully land care saves there environment.