Dugong

Facts Of Dugong
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Sirenia
Family: Dugongidae
Genus: Dugong
Scientific Name: Dugong Dugon
Type: Mammal
Diet: Herbivore
Size (L): 2.7m - 3m (8.9ft - 9.8ft)
Weight: 150kg - 400kg (330lbs - 880lbs)
Top Speed: 22km/h (13mph)
Lifespan: 50 - 70 years
Lifestyle: Solitary
Conservation Status: Threatened
Colour: Brown, Grey
Skin Type: Leather
Favourite Food: Sea Grass
Habitat: Warmer tropical waters and sea grass forests
Average Litter Size: 1
Main Prey: Sea Grass. Algae, Flowers
Predators: Human, Sharks, Crocodile
Distinctive Features: Large body size and forked tail

The dugong is an big marine vertebrate found in the warm waters encompassing Indonesia and Australia. Despite the fact that the dugong can be discovered broadly all through the Indo-Pacific tropics, the most elevated populace of the dugong is thought around northern Australia. Despite the fact that the dugong looks amazingly like a manatee, the two are distinctive species. The dugong and the manatee are firmly related and can look relatively indistinguishable until the point when you take a gander at their tail. The tail of the dugong is regularly forked like the tail of a shark, where the tail of the manatee is expansive and level, and somewhat more flipper looking than blade looking.

Dugongs are littler than manatees with the normal grown-up dugong achieving lengths of around 3 meters and weigh almost 400 kg, which is about the same as a substantial dairy animals. The front flippers of the dugong can be as much as a large portion of a meter long. It is figured the legends of mermaids may have started when mariners from a separation saw dugongs swimming in the water, and mixed up them for half-human half-angle animals. These mermaid legends are additionally said to be valid for the dugongs bigger cousin, the manatee. Dugongs possess the warm shallow waters, and regardless of their huge size, dugongs are entirely herbivorous creatures and have been alluded to as the bovines of the ocean. Dugongs eat on ocean grasses and amphibian plants that develop in plenitude in the tropical shallows. Dugongs eat a lot of ocean plants and frequently desert sustaining trails of exposed sand and evacuated ocean grass.

Female dugongs bring forth only one calf about once at regular intervals. The infant dugong is conceived submerged in the warm shallows, where the infant dugong is promptly ready to swim to the surface with a specific end goal to take its first breath. At the point when the infant dugong is conceived, the dugong calf is about a meter long and weighs around 20 kg. The dugong calf will remain nearby to its mom until the point that the child dugong is around 2 years of age. Dugong populaces are always diminishing, with numerous dugongs being inadvertent casualties in vast business angling. Dugongs are currently thought to be helpless creatures however the dugong will usually get more established than 70 years old. Dugong calves won't achieve their full size until the point that they are around 15 years of age.