Manatees have no significant natural predators and can be found co-existing peacefully with gators.

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Proxidize on June 9th, 2021 at 18:49 UTC »

Manatees just vibin with one of the most proven resilient predators out there

SasquatchPhD on June 9th, 2021 at 18:58 UTC »

I stayed with a lady in Orlando for a theatre festival and she was saying that the only real threat to manatees is people. They get injured by propeller blades so often that their scars are often used as a way to track the movements of specific manatees

CuttlefishABitch on June 9th, 2021 at 19:30 UTC »

I used to work at a facility that would house and rehabilitate injured manatees in Florida. One day, a visiting little boy told my coworker there was an alligator on one of the manatees. My coworker laughed it off, and explained that the alligator gar in their enclosure looked a lot like alligators, but that they were just a harmless fish.

Nearly a half hour later there’s a report that there is, indeed, a MASSIVE male alligator, seemingly asleep atop one of our female manatees. The gator was removed uninjured, without any issue to the manatees, and subsequently returned to the wild.

My coworker never assumed it was the alligator gar again…