Fred+the+Dugong

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My name is Fred the Dugong. My age is 57 I live in the shallow waters of the ocean so that sharks and other large animals won't attack me. I have one daughter named maduta. I had a son, but he went swimming in deeper water for seagrass and never returned to us. I was married to a lovely lady dugong, but... She suffered the same fate. I am a large, grey dolphin like creature that weighs over about 40kg. My skin is very rough and thick.

My favorite food is seagrass which is found in the deeper waters. My favourite activity to do, would be swimming around with my mates and enjoying the warmth of the sun flowing through the waters.

Blog entry one: I am threatened by lots of creatures out there in the world. There are killer whales, sharks, other large fish wanting to eat and especially HUMANS!!!!!!!! I have been maybe hurt by the killer whales and sharks a few times, but I was almost killed by a human once. I Watch out for them when they are driving around in their electronic vehicles that they call boats, because us animals can get trapped under their boat and get caught in the propellers and get harmed very badly. We could even die! Like I said before, we stay in the shallow waters so that killer whales, sharks and larger mammals can't get to us easily.

Blog entry two: Humans are very careless creatures. When they drive around in their boats they only look in the water for fish if they are going to eat or catch them! My daughter and I, agree that nets are a big problem as well! Heaps of animals get caught up in them, even dugongs! They should stop the fishing with nets because t hey catch more than just fish! Humans should be very careful out in the ocean for creatures swimming around down there, as it is. Ruining our homes and lives!

Blog entry three: Some nice people have been giving us homes that we can live in stay safe in. They call them 'protective habitats' or something. I'd say that there are about 18 different ones. I get to meet lots of humans that let me swim down into water to eat seagrass any time I like. WITHOUT ASKING FOR PERMISSION!!! The bad thing is, in some of these so called 'protective habitats' they have walls under water that stop us from swimming out. Like we are prisoners or something. I guess that's life.

As you might have guessed, this is me swimming my daughter.

My daughters name is Maduta.

These are my worst enemies/threats...

This is a shark

Killer whales are SCARY

These threats are the worst of all! HUMANS!!!

This is where I live!

I went onto a website called www.endanderedspeciesforum.wikispaces.com and looked at some peoples pages on endangered animals. I really liked a page about Russell Crowe the blue whale. I found it very interesting reading all of that information! The pictures were amazing!!!! I was sitting there at my computer showing my daughter, and teaching her about Russell Crowe the blue whale.

I also really liked the one named, Bob cheetah Marley. He doesn't look too scary, although I guess he could eat us easily. I really liked the picture of him and enjoyed reading about him as well.

Fred the sea green turtle was also one of my favorites, I like it how he is a water creature like me! I think I may have even seen him swimming around near some sea grass. Mmm sea grass...

For this page, I used a few websites... www.australianmuseums.net.au/dugongs www.Australian-animals.net/dugong.htm www.environment.gov.au www.endanderedspeciesforum.wikispaces.com www.google.com.au