I was looking info in the internet about the Giant Peccary, and I found out that there may be Dwarf Manatees in South America. I had never heard of that before, do any of you guys have any more info about this? Here is the link where I read about it: Too Much Information: Mermaids of the Amazon
Here is the formal description Marc van Roosmalen, New Species, Dwarf Manatee, Amazon Association for the Preservation of Nature
Hey guys, I'm the author of the blog post you originally linked too. I just wanted to add that the discoverer, Van Roosmalen, believes the dwarf manatee to be a new species (which he called trichechus bernhardi) due to the the differences cited in the article (size, diet, habitat), but that the dwarf manatee has not been confirmed as a seperate species and some scientists believe it might just be a variant of the trichechus ingunius, the other manatee species found in the Amazon. I don't think I made that clear when I wrote the post. Anyway, thanks for the link, Meeg
Hello Meeg and welcome to zoobeat! I don't think an author to a blog I've linked has ever replied here on Zoobeat. Especially that fast. Anyways...I hope it does become a seperate species. At first I thought it was a baby, but then read more about it and was surprised that they think it may be a new specie.
My mom also loves manatees, so when I told her she said that they are the cuttest of all the manatees.
