# @discovery on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CqYkLM-J2ra
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/5190238-discovery-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/59ad3a3f39.jpg
- **Posted:** 2023-03-29T19:03:29.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Discovery (@Discovery) — https://gondola.cc/Discovery

## Caption

Video by Robert Harding

Aren’t they beautiful?

Centuries ago, manatees were often mistaken for mermaids, the half-human/half-fish creature of myth and legends. 🧜‍♀️ The mystery of the unknown coupled with some of the manatee’s humanlike features—its ability to turn its head, the fingerlike bones in its forelimbs, its flat tail—possibly led sailors to mistake it for the mythical creature.

#ManateeAppreciationDay

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- **Views:** 33,434
- **Likes:** 15,208
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- **Comments:** 96

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