• angrystego@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    They are called sea cows, but they’re really sea elephants? I hope I’m not terribly wrong.

    • WIZARD POPE💫@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Why elephants? I mean whales are not cows just by looking at what they eat. In that way manatees eating mostly sea plants are closer to being cows. Are they not?

      • shuzuko@midwest.social
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        6 months ago

        I think it’s a joke about manatees having evolved from the same land-based ancestor as elephants, making them pretty literally “sea elephants”.