“Fat mermaid.”#animals #shorts #cute

When you spot a manatee munching on seaweed, it looks like a giant chubby potato in the water. Manatees mainly feed on seaggrass and other aquatic plants. They're natural herbivores, and the way they eat is hilarious, like a giant vacuum cleaner plowing across the seafloor. Adult manatees can grow 6 to 13 ft long and weigh anywhere from 400 to 3,000 lb. They're incredibly gentle animals with almost no sense of territory, and they're friendly toward just about everything. Most of the time, they swim and eat at the same time, spending up to 8 hours a day feeding. If you ever see a manatee in the wild, you can slowly pour a little fresh water nearby and it may slowly turn around like an aircraft carrier and come back looking for you. That's because manatees absolutely love fresh water. Interestingly, their smooth, rounded body shape has earned them the nickname real life mermaids. Adult manatees are usually calm, but baby manes can be surprisingly sassy. If a caretaker is cleaning the pool and won't let a baby manatee eat, the little guy might angrily swim over like it wants to complain. But the next second it gets scared away after the caretaker gives it a couple taps.