15 Manatee Facts 1. Manatees are the teddy bears of the sea. These roly-poly teddy bears clock in at 9 to 13 feet long and typically anywhere from 1000 to 1300 pounds.

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A typical adult manatee weighs between 800 and 1,200 pounds and averages about 10 feet in length, according to Save the Manatee Club. The gentle giants feed primarily on sea grass.

A baby manatee, later named Enzo, is placed on a cloth stretcher Wednesday. Wildlife officials rescued him from Bayboro Harbor at the USF St. Petersburg campus.

A Pompano Beach manatee was spotted with a bike tire wrapped around its torso. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is asking for the public to help spot the ailing animal.

During the winter months, manatees tend to congregate in Florida, although they can be found in estuaries, bays, and rivers farther north and west when it’s warm, according to Save the Manatee Club.

CAPE CORAL, Fla. (CBS12) — A group of neighbors found a baby manatee that was separated from its mother in Cape Coral, and they banded together to save it.

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The baby manatee was alone. The behavior wasn’t observed again until 2015 when a Belizean resident saw a manatee calf swimming with a dolphin near a boat dock by Belize City, the study said.