Third Grade Manatee Curriculum—Lesson 4: Manatees Are Mammals; They Are Closely Related to Elephants

This document is VM207, one of a series of the Veterinary Medicine—Large Animal Clinical Sciences Department, UF/IFAS Extension. Original publication date July 2015. For more lessons in the Third Grade Manatee Curriculum series, go to https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/topic_series_third_grade_manatee_workbook. Visit the EDIS website at https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu.

Ruth Francis-Floyd, professor and UF/IFAS Extension veterinarian, College of Veterinary Medicine and School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences ; and Maia McGuire, Florida Sea Grant agent, UF/IFAS Extension St. Johns and Flagler Counties; UF/IFAS Extension, Gainesville, FL 32611. The authors would like to thank the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission for their financial support of this project.