Editing Manatee (section)

===Intelligence and learning===
[[File:Manatee attitudes.jpg|thumb|right|Manatee postures in captivity]]
Manatees are capable of understanding discrimination tasks and show signs of complex [[Learning#Associative learning|associative learning]]. They also have good [[long-term memory]].<ref>{{cite journal|last1 = Gerstein|first1 = E. R.|year = 1994|title = The manatee mind: Discrimination training for sensory perception testing of West Indian manatees (''Trichechus manatus'')| journal = Marine Mammals|volume = 1|pages = 10–21}}</ref> They demonstrate discrimination and task-learning abilities similar to [[dolphin]]s and [[pinniped]]s in [[Acoustics|acoustic]] and visual studies.<ref name=GulDie>(Marine Mammal Medicine, 2001, Leslie Dierauf & Frances Gulland, CRC Press)</ref> Social interactions between manatees are highly complex and intricate, which may indicate higher intelligence than previously thought, although they remain poorly understood by science.<ref name="HenautCharlesDelfour2022">{{cite journal |last1=Henaut |first1=Yann |last2=Charles |first2=Aviva |last3=Delfour |first3=Fabienne |date=24 August 2022 |title=Cognition of the manatee: past research and future developments |url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10071-022-01676-8 |journal=[[Animal Cognition]] |volume=25 |issue=5 |pages=1049–1058 |doi=10.1007/s10071-022-01676-8 |pmid=36002602 |s2cid=251808935 |access-date=29 October 2022 |archive-date=30 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221030025414/https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10071-022-01676-8 |url-status=live |url-access=subscription }}</ref>