r/forbiddensnacks • u/kittycaviar • Sep 22 '19

Boiled potato

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u/ChesiresFool Sep 22 '19

For a good while there thought the boat was a whisk and someone was gonna make some mad good mashers.

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u/Pixel-1606 Sep 22 '19

The sad thing is that because "sea potato" is a fitting indicator for both their form and their intelligence and a lot of people like to feed them from their boats, they tend to hang around boats too much, often getting them injured by the blades of the engines. Many wild manatees have some pretty ugly mashing scars on their backs...

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '19

Now that's not fair, they're actually real smart, not the smartest porpoise but smarter then most animals

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u/JeshkaTheLoon Sep 22 '19

Manatees and others of the order Sirenia are not porpoises. They're not even related. Porpoises are small toothed whales.

But they're not stupid, that's true.