Fun Facts about Manatees

• The name manatee comes from the Tainno word for breast.
• One of the manatee’s closest living relations are the elephants.
• Manatees can live up to 60 years.
• Manatees travel north as far as to Massachusetts in the summer.
• Manatees become sexually mature in about 5 years.
• Manatees form breeding herds where they breed indiscriminately.
• Manatee fossils have been found that are 60 million years old.