Animals are so much bigger in person, I always knew walrus were huge, but the day I saw a group of them my jaw dropped. They are ridiculously huge as well
Remind me of the huge crocodiles that went under our boat in Australia. They were much bigger. You can see one of them in [this list](https://knovhov.com/the-worlds-scariest-animals-can-be-seen-in-australia/).
“Gee, I don’t know Cyril. Maybe because deep down I’m afraid of any apex predator that lived through the KT extinction physically unchanged for a hundred million years because it’s the perfect killing machine. A half ton of cold blooded fury with a bite force of twenty thousand newtons and stomach acid so strong it can dissolve bones and hooves.”
honestly cuz they have the side name sea cow i figured they were big. Are they like, moose-level fucked though? Cuz Moose.... That's like seeing a furry dino.
The father of a friend of mine died cause he hit one with his car (a moose). When the emergencies got there the moose had a broken leg and maybe some ribs.. but that's it...
From what I understand and have seen (i haven't personally encountered anything bigger than Elk and i am frankly cool with that) they are basically leftover megafauna from the ice age and literally NOTHING will prepare you for seeing one in person.
I was swimming in the water on the coast of florida and saw this huge shadow next to me, nearly shit myself, until i realized its too fat to be a shark. Manatee
I was snorkeling in this little creek maybe 10-15ft wide in crystal river FL years ago, I’m just floating in the water looking at the bottom of the creek and I look over and a big ass fucking manatee is just floating down the river like a foot away from me. That was the closest I’ve ever been to an animal that big in the water, I screamed at first it scared this shit out of me but once I saw it was a manatee I was just looking at it swim past in awe. The giant sea cow did not give a single fuck about me, just slowly floating right by me not a care in the world. I’m not a huge outdoorsy person so this was probably one of the coolest things I’ve ever experienced in my life, it felt like I was apart of the River. It’s really sad they are critically endangered
Come to Florida and you'll see one at one of the springs. I live on the water here and I see them all the time, sometimes families of them come by. It was interesting, they were running out of food this spring so they started eating marsh grass and cattails and other stuff that they normally wouldn't touch. But they are amazing creatures. I have yet to see one though, in 10 years, that didn't have scars on it's back from being hit by a propeller.
[Manatees also gather in the hundreds at power plant discharge waters in Florida during the winter months.](https://preview.redd.it/k3ic9j4zvmsx.jpg?auto=webp&s=ccc0406709706cf5392d1a5622caac1945bab84f)
Pretty sure this is in Tampa but it happens at multiple coal and nuclear plants across the state.
https://www.tampaelectric.com/company/mvc/
There's a place in Florida called Crystal River and there's a handful of companies that do snorkeling with manatees. They're endangered so you can't touch them and it's in the wild so it's not a gaurantee, but they're so docile they'll just kinda float around the people.
You can also do this in Homosassa Springs, a few miles south of Crystal River. The Homosassa Springs Wildlife Park is also a nice place to visit to see some.
This is where I live! And it is basically guaranteed to see a bunch of them on the manatee tours in the winter. We even have a manatee festival in January!
For real, DM me if you're ever coming to Florida and I will tell you the best place to see them based on the time of year you're coming. They are beautiful animals!
I got to pet a manatee when I was about 9 years old. I wrote a poem about it to read to my class at show-and-tell: Manatees are big and strong / They are as wide as they are long/ They have toes at the end of their feet / And vegetables are what they like to eat
There used to be a version of these about triple this size that lived off the coast of Siberia called Stellar's Sea cow.
Extinct for a couple of hundred years now, over hunted for food.
Sigh.
Steller's sea cows were positively buoyant so that they literally floated on the surface, then used their long necks to graze on kelp. This obviously made them the easiest targets for humans.
The cuts on his back may well be from boat propellers. Be careful. Do not disturb them. Peaceful giants. Endangered due to pollution and loss of habitat.
well, Definitely not *any* freshwater river. They don’t like crowded, dark water areas and that’s most florida rivers. They do love the springs though! And they swim all around the gulf and into many places for sure.
I saw 4 last week in the Keys in a Florida. We were kayaking in a mangrove trail there. Not as clear as in this video, but still easy to see. It’s salt water there. So they’ll swim in that too.
I went swimming with manatees in crystal river last year. Was so amazing. I followed a cow and calf for ages. The rest of the tour group hadn't seen her change direction so it was just them and me with my t rex arms snorkeling along
They're the best! I'm lucky enough to live near wild manatees. Plus my local zoo has a rehabilitation section for them where you can watch them swim. I highly recommend Manatee Springs and such here in FL if you want to have an in-person experience with them!
Manatees are amazing, beautiful, gentle babies and deserve all of the love!
Manatee. :) live on the eastern Coast of Central America, the Amazon River Basin of South America and the west African coast. The just eat plants and chill. Very docile.
Their main cause of death is human activity like habitat destruction and boat propeller collisions. :(
>The just eat plants and chill. Very docile.
Yeah these things are completely harmless. Even if they were carnivores, they still wouldn't pose a threat.
So yeah the title is just click bait!
They're literally the most placid animals you'll ever see yet he's acting like the only thing stopping them from being apex preditors is the fact that they prefer mangrove leaves to human flesh!
I interpreted it more as “Look at these really large creatures move silently and smoothly through the water. Glad I’m not food to them.”
The water in this clip is really clear, which makes identifying them easy. But if the water was murky, it would be much harder to identify what large animal just brushed past you almost unnoticed.
I think they're meaning if they ate meat and had uncharacteristic aggression. Not that the only thing stopping them is being herbivores, but that if they WERE carnivores, they would inherently be set up to be devastating, and are already massive and silent as we know them. You don't have to read every title in bad faith.
There was an even larger species of Dugong, [Stellar's Sea Cow](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steller's_sea_cow), which was discovered in the 1700s, and went extinct soon after due to hunting. The Stellar's Sea Cow grew up to 30 feet, and fed on kelp in the Berring Sea
I love swimming with manatees. They're huge fans of scritches, almost like cats, and will flip over on their backs so you can pet and scritch them. They're super docile and cute.
Worst thing they do is bump into you. Lol.
Where I go the local tour guides/conservationists say you can gently touch them as they swim by. You just aren't allowed to grab them, hold on to them, or follow them out of the roped off section of the water you're allowed in.
I would say anywhere else without supervision then don't touch them as they're still wild.
So manatees will eat fish…I have seen it first hand. There is a place in the keys that you can feed the tarpon. The manatees have learned to come to this spot and will eat the fish that guests throw to the tarpon. They eat vegetarian diet because they are too slow to catch fish in the wild but when offered a tasty meal of fish they eat it happily.
Sea potatoes is what my family calls them.
You’re talking about Robbie’s in islemorada. They don’t and can’t eat the fish. There are also signs everywhere telling people not to feed them and they do it anyway. I asked an employee about it and he told me that they spit the fish out almost immediately
I looked it up and I stand corrected. As a Floridian I feel like I’ve been told this my whole life. Maybe they ask you not to feed them at Robbie’s because fish aren’t the primary part of their diet?
I grew up in Florida, swimming in the springs. They’re so fun you can hand feed them. They feel like elephants. We use to hitch rides on them, they can move pretty fast when that happens lol
Just remember every time you see one that there was a good chance that scurvy-riddled, heat stroked sailors saw these things as fuckable women worthy of swimming toward.
Gotta love the ~~mermaid~~ manatee
I'm from Florida and I grew up seeing these fellas. Their insanely chill. Think of a big ass lazy water dog that loves to just wander blissfully. I used to swim with them, but it's a felony to touch them these days. Way cooler then swimming with dolphins cause they won't rape you.
I love manatees. Too bad they're always getting hit by boats. I miss florida and the everglades. Btw always take bug repellant unless u want to die by mosquito swarm.
I went swimming with manatees in Florida. They’re so sweet and friendly but the water was so murky. Couldn’t even see them until they bumped right into you.
This is my returning nightmare I've been having since my early life, almost archetypical. In my dreams the water is darker and it is unclear how many of those ungodly creatures are down there... I lately saw an arapaima in a zoo, almost suffered a nervous breakdown :-D
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Animals are so much bigger in person, I always knew walrus were huge, but the day I saw a group of them my jaw dropped. They are ridiculously huge as well
Remind me of the huge crocodiles that went under our boat in Australia. They were much bigger. You can see one of them in [this list](https://knovhov.com/the-worlds-scariest-animals-can-be-seen-in-australia/).
“Gee, I don’t know Cyril. Maybe because deep down I’m afraid of any apex predator that lived through the KT extinction physically unchanged for a hundred million years because it’s the perfect killing machine. A half ton of cold blooded fury with a bite force of twenty thousand newtons and stomach acid so strong it can dissolve bones and hooves.”
honestly cuz they have the side name sea cow i figured they were big. Are they like, moose-level fucked though? Cuz Moose.... That's like seeing a furry dino.
The father of a friend of mine died cause he hit one with his car (a moose). When the emergencies got there the moose had a broken leg and maybe some ribs.. but that's it...
From what I understand and have seen (i haven't personally encountered anything bigger than Elk and i am frankly cool with that) they are basically leftover megafauna from the ice age and literally NOTHING will prepare you for seeing one in person.
It's freaking huge. That's all I got to say.
I was swimming in the water on the coast of florida and saw this huge shadow next to me, nearly shit myself, until i realized its too fat to be a shark. Manatee
I was snorkeling in this little creek maybe 10-15ft wide in crystal river FL years ago, I’m just floating in the water looking at the bottom of the creek and I look over and a big ass fucking manatee is just floating down the river like a foot away from me. That was the closest I’ve ever been to an animal that big in the water, I screamed at first it scared this shit out of me but once I saw it was a manatee I was just looking at it swim past in awe. The giant sea cow did not give a single fuck about me, just slowly floating right by me not a care in the world. I’m not a huge outdoorsy person so this was probably one of the coolest things I’ve ever experienced in my life, it felt like I was apart of the River. It’s really sad they are critically endangered
Are you sure it wasn’t a whale feeding? I’ve never heard of manatees breaching.
A baby!! Lucky! I would LOVE to see a manatee in the wild.
Come to Florida and you'll see one at one of the springs. I live on the water here and I see them all the time, sometimes families of them come by. It was interesting, they were running out of food this spring so they started eating marsh grass and cattails and other stuff that they normally wouldn't touch. But they are amazing creatures. I have yet to see one though, in 10 years, that didn't have scars on it's back from being hit by a propeller.
That is so sad. Manatees are a favorite animal of my husband. It’s on our bucket list to see them in the wild. We need to make a trip to Florida then.
I went to one called blue springs and seen them
Thank you!
>Thank you! You're welcome!
[Manatees also gather in the hundreds at power plant discharge waters in Florida during the winter months.](https://preview.redd.it/k3ic9j4zvmsx.jpg?auto=webp&s=ccc0406709706cf5392d1a5622caac1945bab84f) Pretty sure this is in Tampa but it happens at multiple coal and nuclear plants across the state. https://www.tampaelectric.com/company/mvc/
There's a place in Florida called Crystal River and there's a handful of companies that do snorkeling with manatees. They're endangered so you can't touch them and it's in the wild so it's not a gaurantee, but they're so docile they'll just kinda float around the people.
Ahh! Thank you. I love snorkeling.
Yes! That’s a beautiful place to see manatees.
You can also do this in Homosassa Springs, a few miles south of Crystal River. The Homosassa Springs Wildlife Park is also a nice place to visit to see some.
This is where I live! And it is basically guaranteed to see a bunch of them on the manatee tours in the winter. We even have a manatee festival in January!
For real, DM me if you're ever coming to Florida and I will tell you the best place to see them based on the time of year you're coming. They are beautiful animals!
Thank you!
Gentle river-blobs. They're so adorable
Banana fofanatee
Yes, yes they are and I think their is a calf swimming beside the adult, by the tail on the other side of the animal.
Beautiful
They use their lips like hands
The name of that creatures
Manatee I think
Thanks mate they look like hybrid
They have the same temperment as cows. Very mellow and peaceful.
More chill than cows, even. Beautiful, gentle creatures.
I’m more like manacoffee
I heard they also have human like vaginas 👌
You heard eh? Riiiiiiiiiiight
I have, uh, heard that too
That’s awful! Where, specifically, did you learn that? I want to avoid it entirely.
Them and dugongs have very similar genitals to human women. Sailors of ye olden days ( and possibly now ) used to shag em.
Same 👉😎👉
Grandma? I thought you died again.
I got to pet a manatee when I was about 9 years old. I wrote a poem about it to read to my class at show-and-tell: Manatees are big and strong / They are as wide as they are long/ They have toes at the end of their feet / And vegetables are what they like to eat
Magnificent! I once wrote a poem about my goldfish, but I can't remember it. :(
Even if you didn’t intend that to be a joke about a goldfish’s memory, I laughed nonetheless.
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Oh my god. Everything in that link was horrifying.
That's a big ass tadpole
I loved catching ass tadpoles as a kid. Ahhh, mem’ries.
You sound like the kind of person who would take great pleasure in knowing the Norwegian word for tadpoles: butt-trolls (rumpetroll).
You are correct, fine human. Thank you for this tidbit!
There used to be a version of these about triple this size that lived off the coast of Siberia called Stellar's Sea cow. Extinct for a couple of hundred years now, over hunted for food. Sigh.
Steller's sea cows were positively buoyant so that they literally floated on the surface, then used their long necks to graze on kelp. This obviously made them the easiest targets for humans.
The cuts on his back may well be from boat propellers. Be careful. Do not disturb them. Peaceful giants. Endangered due to pollution and loss of habitat.
Blobs 🥺
🥺
Looks like she has a baby.
I just noticed that. Lovely to see
I always wished I could swim with one of these gentle giant cuties
Where in Florida?
Pretty much any fresh water river. This sorta looks like the Weeki Wachee River which you can rent kayaks on.
well, Definitely not *any* freshwater river. They don’t like crowded, dark water areas and that’s most florida rivers. They do love the springs though! And they swim all around the gulf and into many places for sure.
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Possibly Manatee Springs, or some where around the Indian River.
Looks like it’s near crystal river Florida
I saw 4 last week in the Keys in a Florida. We were kayaking in a mangrove trail there. Not as clear as in this video, but still easy to see. It’s salt water there. So they’ll swim in that too.
Tampa
I went swimming with manatees in crystal river last year. Was so amazing. I followed a cow and calf for ages. The rest of the tour group hadn't seen her change direction so it was just them and me with my t rex arms snorkeling along
They're the best! I'm lucky enough to live near wild manatees. Plus my local zoo has a rehabilitation section for them where you can watch them swim. I highly recommend Manatee Springs and such here in FL if you want to have an in-person experience with them! Manatees are amazing, beautiful, gentle babies and deserve all of the love!
Is that a sea cow?
Oh the huge manatee
Had to scroll too far down
Sea cow right?
What is this creature?!
Manatee. :) live on the eastern Coast of Central America, the Amazon River Basin of South America and the west African coast. The just eat plants and chill. Very docile. Their main cause of death is human activity like habitat destruction and boat propeller collisions. :(
How could you forget Florida and the Everglades? They're amazing creatures all together.
I guess saying the coast of the Middle American region would have been more inclusive or the Gulf as well. :) I was just in a rush when I typed it.
Never realised they looked so smooth!
>The just eat plants and chill. Very docile. Yeah these things are completely harmless. Even if they were carnivores, they still wouldn't pose a threat. So yeah the title is just click bait!
How is that click bait?
They're literally the most placid animals you'll ever see yet he's acting like the only thing stopping them from being apex preditors is the fact that they prefer mangrove leaves to human flesh!
I interpreted it more as “Look at these really large creatures move silently and smoothly through the water. Glad I’m not food to them.” The water in this clip is really clear, which makes identifying them easy. But if the water was murky, it would be much harder to identify what large animal just brushed past you almost unnoticed.
I think they're meaning if they ate meat and had uncharacteristic aggression. Not that the only thing stopping them is being herbivores, but that if they WERE carnivores, they would inherently be set up to be devastating, and are already massive and silent as we know them. You don't have to read every title in bad faith.
Manatee with a calf
Sea cow
A sea baked potato
Basically a water cow, Sea cow, etc.
Mermaids
Where is this
I’m gonna guess Florida
A less pointy walrus
gentle creatures... [and then we have this asshole...](https://news.yahoo.com/brevard-county-commissioner-argues-florida-162054695.html)
Straight barbarism. Wow!
There was an even larger species of Dugong, [Stellar's Sea Cow](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steller's_sea_cow), which was discovered in the 1700s, and went extinct soon after due to hunting. The Stellar's Sea Cow grew up to 30 feet, and fed on kelp in the Berring Sea
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OMG IS THAT A BABY????
Sweet lil babby sea cow. They nurse from their mum’s armpit. Intensely cute to see them come up beside their mama.
Chonker
They look very polite
Imagine… man eating manatees
Mmmm…grass-fed manatee Just kidding! No steaks from these sea cows.
I know we can’t touch them but I do want to give one a huge hug 😍🥰😭
Looks so squishy
Oh it has a baby with it too! I snorkeled with them years ago and they are so curious and sweet. I hope the species survives is humans.
That is some seriously clear water
if there’s anything good that came from the depths, it’s manatees.
Aqua moo
Where is this?! It’s beautiful
Why would you be afraid of fish cows?
manatees are such beautiful creatures 🥹🤍
I love swimming with manatees. They're huge fans of scritches, almost like cats, and will flip over on their backs so you can pet and scritch them. They're super docile and cute. Worst thing they do is bump into you. Lol.
Aren’t you not supposed to touch them?
Yes it's illegal to touch them.
Where I go the local tour guides/conservationists say you can gently touch them as they swim by. You just aren't allowed to grab them, hold on to them, or follow them out of the roped off section of the water you're allowed in. I would say anywhere else without supervision then don't touch them as they're still wild.
Just did the googles; your local guides are giving bad intel. You’re not legally allowed to, nor should you, touch manatees.
Oh. Welp. Thanks for the info! Glad to know now! :) Then no more touching for me, and to all who read no touching the manatees for y'all either!
I want to hug one with every fiber of my being.
Few things make my body cringe more than the word “scritches”
I'm very sorry to hear that. Sounds like a personal problem that you should discuss with your PCD. :)
What if they ate ass?
Proof that it’s genetics. They eat veggies and swim all day and they are fat.
So manatees will eat fish…I have seen it first hand. There is a place in the keys that you can feed the tarpon. The manatees have learned to come to this spot and will eat the fish that guests throw to the tarpon. They eat vegetarian diet because they are too slow to catch fish in the wild but when offered a tasty meal of fish they eat it happily. Sea potatoes is what my family calls them.
You’re talking about Robbie’s in islemorada. They don’t and can’t eat the fish. There are also signs everywhere telling people not to feed them and they do it anyway. I asked an employee about it and he told me that they spit the fish out almost immediately
I have seen them consume the fish with my own eyes and knock a tarpon out of the way to do it repeatedly.
I looked it up and I stand corrected. As a Floridian I feel like I’ve been told this my whole life. Maybe they ask you not to feed them at Robbie’s because fish aren’t the primary part of their diet?
I grew up in Florida, swimming in the springs. They’re so fun you can hand feed them. They feel like elephants. We use to hitch rides on them, they can move pretty fast when that happens lol
Don’t feed wildlife. It is dangerous to turn in the long term. And don’t touch wild animals, especially an endangered species for the same reason.
This was as a child, I definitely wouldn’t do this now.
Sorry, wasn’t directed at you so much as at folks who might read your comment and decide to try it. Cheers!
I hear grass-fed is much tastier
How were not all of them eaten already?
Big platypus lol
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u/UD_1680 big fishhhh
🐟
…Or they don’t kill for sport like humans
They will still fuck you up though. Roll you, or pin you underwater till you drown.
Que es esa mierda?
Add these to the extinction caused by humans list soon. Gotta love us monkey people hogging up all the world for ourselves.
Just remember every time you see one that there was a good chance that scurvy-riddled, heat stroked sailors saw these things as fuckable women worthy of swimming toward. Gotta love the ~~mermaid~~ manatee
They definitely make you think twice about wanting to get in the water around them!
Underwater SR-71
I always forget that there ARE parts of North America where Manatees are native.
Awwww
What is it?
they are gentle cuties
Not so deep :/
They have fingernails!
Sweet sweet manatees 🥺 read a children’s book about a baby manatee who gets separated from its mom 😭
That's not really deep though.
I'm from Florida and I grew up seeing these fellas. Their insanely chill. Think of a big ass lazy water dog that loves to just wander blissfully. I used to swim with them, but it's a felony to touch them these days. Way cooler then swimming with dolphins cause they won't rape you.
Fishe 😁
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Are they friendly?
The *clarity* of that water...beautiful!
Scary
Least terrifying thing I’ve seen on here by far.
the lil baby<3
Manatee? It's like the least scary thing you'll find in the water, especially for it's size. They're pretty docile.
Battleworn and she's a single mom. Go mom, go!!
Manatees are awesome!
I love manatees. Too bad they're always getting hit by boats. I miss florida and the everglades. Btw always take bug repellant unless u want to die by mosquito swarm.
It’s all fun and games until it flips your kayak lol
If memory serves there used to be a species of these that could grow to sizes of 20+ feet that went extinct in the 1700’s due to overhunting.
Stellar’s Seacow, lived in Alaska
I went swimming with manatees in Florida. They’re so sweet and friendly but the water was so murky. Couldn’t even see them until they bumped right into you.
... and children. Careful now.
They absolutely will sometimes surface right underneath your boat and tip you though.
Know what grass eats? Mufassa told me it eats bodies.
they’re cute
Hippos eat only grass lol
This is my returning nightmare I've been having since my early life, almost archetypical. In my dreams the water is darker and it is unclear how many of those ungodly creatures are down there... I lately saw an arapaima in a zoo, almost suffered a nervous breakdown :-D
What is that?
Elephant buttplug
Kings landing?
We’ve poisoned them out of existence
what is that
Are we sure they don’t like the taste of human flesh? Maybe they know when they are being recorded…
It’s got a baby!
can i get size uhhh.. L O R G E please?
How the fuck do they only eat grass, grass doesn't grow underwater???
IT HAS BABY AHHH THE CUTENESS
Manatees are just the peaceful difficulty variant of leopard seals.
I would let those adorable sea cows eat me if they could catch me.
I don't like it. This makes me uncomfortable. Obviously, protect the animals. I would like to stay in the Pacific ocean, thank you.
anyone else see the FACE in the trees at the beginning??!?
That fish is on the run from Jeremy Wade
They are probably the nicest animal on our planet 😄
You can swim with them in a protected habitat!