"Skull of African Manatee (Manatus senegatensis)." —The Encyclopedia Britannica, 1903

African Manatee

"Skull of African Manatee (Manatus senegatensis)." —The Encyclopedia Britannica, 1903

"It is of a gray-black color, nine or ten feet long, and has vestiges of nails on the edges of the flippers, which are used dexterously in creeping and carrying the young." — S. G. Goodrich, 1885

Manatee

"It is of a gray-black color, nine or ten feet long, and has vestiges of nails on the edges of the flippers,…