Nah ini adalah namanya hoax dari sejarah.
Untuk mereka yg pernah tinggal didaerah Amazone dan Caribean Island atau
tinggl dieverglades dari Gulf of Mexico - ini pengetahuan sejarah adalah hoax
penulis yg menertawakan.
Mengenai phenotype dari Manatee memang dia menulis kurang lebih korek -
tetapi dia tidak ditulis - dimana binatang ini dapat diketemukan.dan dimana
binatang ini dipergunakn untuk penghidupan penduduk setempat.
Manatee adalah semacem binatang air yg hidup didalam brackish dan fresh-
water dibanyak tempat2 didaerah ini. Mereka adalah semacem binatang yg boleh
dikatakan adalah semacem whale dari daerah tsb - dan tidak bisa hidup diluar
air - karena berat badan mereka dan karena mereka tidak punya kaki. Utk mereka
yg belum pernah lihat - Binatang air ini seperti sea-elephant atau seal -
tetapi seal dan sea-elephant bisa naik kedarat dan menjemur diatas pantai.
Manatee tidak dapat keluar - karena terlalu berat. nama scientificnya adala
watercow atau seacow.
Manatee hidup dari tanaman2 yg ada didaerah pantai - hutan mangrove, dan
daerah2 sungai yg penuh waterhyacint. Untuk native American yg tinggal
diCaibean - binatang ini adalah semacem ternak. Penduduk dari daerah ini tidak
mengetahui adanya sapi, kuda, kembing etc dan diet daging mereka harus datang
dari udara - burung2 dan dari air - seafood. Yg dari daratan mereka hanya
menemukan amphibia, ,reptiles dan mamalia kecil, etc dan manusia. Cannibalisme
banyak dan tawanan perang dipiara sebagai ternak untuk dimakan. Manatee utk
penduduk ini dipakai utk kulit dan dagingnya - dan tulangnya dipakai utk
medicine [hoax] Sekarang binatang ini sama dgn American Native diCaribean semua
sudah musnah dan tidak ada karena bajak2laut yg datang dari Europah. Yg masih
dapat diketemukan hanya didaerah amazona dan disungai dibagian utara benua
America selatan. Manatee juga masih dapat diketemukan didaerah pantai dari gulf
of Mexico..Untuk menemukannya dan menangkapnya sangat sulit sebab
selain sedikit - juga sulit dilihat karena warna air yg penuh dgn tanaman
didalam hutan mangrove.
Jikalau ditulis bahwa Columbus membikin kesalahan bahwa manatees adalah
mermaid - ini memang lamunan sipenulis yg super hebat. Manusia yg mana yg akan
melihat manatees ini sebagai mermaid - makluk setengah manusia dan ikan [lihat
webside dibawah ini] Ini kan lebih kaya seal dari pada manusia. Kemungkinan
besar memang Columbus harus menemukan binatang ini dan pasti ditulis didalam
logbook kapal tetapi manatee yg namanya berasal dari perkataan manati
[buahdada[ dlm bah. caraib - didalam terjemahan kedalam bah. lain mungkin
dirubah menjadi mermaid.
Andreas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manatee
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"D.O.C 107" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
January 9: General Interest
1493 : Columbus mistakes manatees for mermaids
On this day in 1493, Italian explorer Christopher
Columbus, sailing near the Dominican Republic, sees
three "mermaids"--in reality manatees--and describes
them as "not half as beautiful as they are painted."
Six months earlier, Columbus (1451-1506) set off from
Spain across the Atlantic Ocean with the Nina, Pinta
and Santa Maria, hoping to find a western trade route
to Asia. Instead, his voyage, the first of four he
would make, led him to the Americas, or "New World."
Mermaids, mythical half-female, half-fish creatures,
have existed in seafaring cultures at least since the
time of the ancient Greeks. Typically depicted as
having a woman's head and torso, a fishtail instead of
legs and holding a mirror and comb, mermaids live in
the ocean and, according to some legends, can take on
a human shape and marry mortal men. Mermaids are
closely linked to sirens, another folkloric figure,
part-woman, part-bird, who live on islands and sing
seductive songs to lure sailors to their deaths.
Mermaid sightings by sailors, when they weren't made
up, were most likely manatees, dugongs or Steller's
sea cows (which became extinct by the 1760s due to
over-hunting). Manatees are slow-moving aquatic
mammals with human-like eyes, bulbous faces and
paddle-like tails. It is likely that manatees evolved
from an ancestor they share with the elephant. The
three species of manatee (West Indian, West African
and Amazonian) and one species of dugong belong to the
Sirenia order. As adults, they're typically 10 to 12
feet long and weigh 800 to 1,200 pounds. They're
plant-eaters, have a slow metabolism and can only
survive in warm water.
Manatees live an average of 50 to 60 years in the wild
and have no natural predators. However, they are an
endangered species. In the U.S., the majority of
manatees are found in Florida, where scores of them
die or are injured each year due to collisions with
boats.
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