#dugong
S for the sea cow
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Manatees are known to graze along the plantation of the sea thus getting their nickname
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Here is my completed “Amazing, Beautiful Creatures” project as an A2 wall chart!
There may be as many as nine million different species of animal on Earth, and yet many of the most interesting and beautiful creatures get overlooked in favour of those more familiar too us. This is my attempt to introduce some of the less well known ones, although there were many more that I would have liked to have included. I hope that most people will learn a fact or two!
Sadly, many of the creatures I’ve covered, such as the Dugong, Gharial,and the Leatherback Turtle are all threatened with extinction. Hopefully by learning more about these creatures we can help prevent this from happening.
Hope you enjoy, I have learnt a lot making it.
Super high resolution version.
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North Pacific Ocean//Recently Extinct (c. 1768) // Sirenia//image source
Fun Fact: Steller’s Sea Cow was closely related to dugongs and manatees, but could grow up to 30 feet in length. It was hunted to extinction within 30 years of its discovery by European settlers.
Dugongs are Pacific manatees. You can tell the difference between a manatee and a dugong because dugong’s have fluked tails. Also “manatee” sounds more like a thing to me. “Dugong” is one of those words that never stops looking like a typo. They have prehensile upper lips on their stupid fat faces that they just drag along the seafloor all the damn time so they can suck up like a hundred pounds worth of plants every single day. They’re like underwater vaccuum cleaners. Unlike manatees, dugongs are saltwater mammals, which really doesn’t seem safe to me. It’s like seeing a baby with a fork. It’s like, yeah, I get it, I get that forks are not intrinsically dangerous, but are you sure that this baby is ready to handle that responsibility? Mother Nature, are you absolutely positive that dugongs can handle open ocean? They’re not…they’re not gonna get caught in a current or anything?
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I’ve been converting my absurd zoology designs to risograph and I’m really liking how they’re turning out!
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March Mammal Madnes, Tricksy Taxonomy (or, as it was known behind the scenes at first, “But WHAT is it?”)
Species list under the cut:
- Egyptian Rousette x2
- Dugong x2
- Giant Golden Mole
- Cuban Solenodon
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Folks keep asking me if I use a mouse to draw in MS Paint. I don’t, I have a 14-year-old Wacom Bamboo Fun tablet that I usually use to draw digitally.
But I’ve also had to wait for R to process data on school computers, so here’s a dugong I doodled in MS Paint with a mouse some years ago:
