Dugong

Key facts

• Dugong lives in Australia, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Egypt, Tanzania, and Mozambique.
• Group: Sea animals.
• It weighs about 300 kg (661 lb).
• A typical adult is about 3 m (9.84 ft) long.
• It lives about 70 years.
• Diet: herbivore.
• Habitat: ocean.
• Sailors long ago may have mistaken dugongs and manatees for mermaids when they saw them from a ship.