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sea cow: see sirenian sirenian (sīrē`nēən) or sea cow, name for a large aquatic mammal of the order Sirenia. ..... Click the link for more information. . sea cowor Steller's sea cowExtinct aquatic mammal (Hydrodamalis gigas) that lived around islands in the Bering Sea. It was discovered in 1741 and described by a member of Vitus Bering's expedition. At least 24 ft (7.5 m) long, it had no teeth, a small head, and a broad, horizontal, forked tail fluke; its dark brown skin was sometimes streaked or spotted with white. It browsed on seaweed. Russian sealers hunted it for food and fur; by 1768 the entire population, estimated at about 5,000, had been exterminated. The term also refers to dugongs and manatees. |
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The gentle giant, also known as a sea cow, can spend eight hours a day eating between 4 to 9 percent of its body weight in food. It turned out to be the perfect sea cow to eat our algae," Adey says. Even as Sea World and state divers, doctors and biologists scurried late last week to put out the net that would eventually capture and then free the stranded sea cow, the gentle creature played cat-and-mouse with them, surfacing within mere feet of the workers at least four times in 25 minutes. |
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