Editing African manatee (section)

==Description==
[[File:The Congo Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1919) (20492574730).jpg|thumb|African manatee on land]]
[[File:Trichechus senegalensis skull.jpg|thumb|Skull of an African manatee]]
The African manatee's body is widest at the middle, and its tail resembles a paddle. The manatee is gray in color with small, colorless hairs that cover its body. However, algae and other tiny organisms often grow on an African manatee's body, so its body sometimes appears brown or greenish in color. Calves are darker in color when they are very young.<ref name="SeaWorld"/><ref name="EOL"/><ref name="MammalsOfTheWorld"/> African manatees measure up to {{convert|4.5|m|ft|abbr=on}} in length, and weigh about {{convert|360|kg|lb|abbr=off}}.<ref name="AnimalCorner"/> African manatees are typically extremely slow, moving between 4.8&nbsp;km and 8.0&nbsp;km (3 and 5&nbsp;mi) per hour, although when scared by predators they can travel at speeds of about {{convert|32|km|mi|abbr=on}} per hour. The African manatee's large forelimbs, or flippers, are used to paddle and to bring food to its mouth. Vegetation is then  chewed by the manatee's strong molars, which are its only teeth. When the manatee is born, each jaw has two vestigial incisors, which the manatee loses as it matures.<ref name="MammalsOfTheWorld"/> If the African manatee's molars happen to fall out, new molars grow in their place. The manatee's flippers, which have nails, are also used to graze other manatees. The African manatee does not have any hind limbs.<ref name="EOL"/><ref name="ParadiseEarth">{{cite web|title=West African manatee |publisher=Paradise Earth |year=2008 |url=http://www.paradiseearth.com/Animal%20Articles/Manatee.html |access-date=December 31, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426082708/http://www.paradiseearth.com/Animal%20Articles/Manatee.html |archive-date=April 26, 2012 }}</ref><ref name="AnimalInfo">{{cite web | title = West African Manatee | publisher = Animal Info | year = 2006 | url = http://www.animalinfo.org/species/tricsene.htm | access-date = January 7, 2011 | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101119105212/http://animalinfo.org/species/tricsene.htm | archive-date = November 19, 2010 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | last = Dr. Macrini | first = Ted | title = "Trichechus senegalensis" (On-line) | publisher = Digital Morphology | year = 2004 | url = http://digimorph.org/specimens/Trichechus_senegalensis/ | access-date = January 8, 2011| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20101214181704/http://digimorph.org/specimens/Trichechus_senegalensis/| archive-date= 14 December 2010 | url-status= live}}</ref> From the exterior, the African manatee looks very similar to the American manatee; however, the African manatee is different from the Amazonian manatee, which has characteristic white markings on its abdomen.<ref name="AnimalInfo"/>