Just keeping my buoyancy in check.

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• JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Only manatees are known to do this. Womanatees are disgusted by the practice.

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  • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They don’t even poop.

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    • a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No butts? 😯

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• SpicyTaint@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  • OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Or from a Sith either, one would imagine/hope! 😎

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    • very_well_lost@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Darth Flatulence

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    • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That guy’s always smiling. I bet he knows exactly how to do it. Who is going to call him out?

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• tyr0sine@mander.xyz ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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• lemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Cool. How does it work?

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  • sbeak@sopuli.xyz ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    When (low density) gas is released, the overall density of the manatee is increased (more volume is from the high density meat and fat bits instead if the low density gaseous bits) so the manatee sinks. Then, through digestion and such, gas inside manatee can increase, making its overall density lower and it floats. (Kind of like how ships float even though their made of metal, since the majority of the vessel is air, the overall density is less than water)

    This is also how submarines sink and resurface I think, but they release and let in water.

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    • lemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Thank you. When I read about an endless cycle of farting, I expected some sophisticated organ for pressure changes or something, which sounded unlikely. Like the submarines, which reuse the same air. I would hardly call this a cycle. It’s neat nonetheless :-)

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  • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Buoyancy, farting, or manatees?

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  • Morph9@lemmy.zip ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    animalsaroundtheglobe.com/fun-fact-manatees-use-t…

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    • lemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I completely missed there’s a link too, sorry.

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    • KoboldCoterie@pawb.social ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Sure, but how does it work?

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• wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Manatees aren’t the only ones.

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• DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I bet that guy who has lied to his family about liking manatees for the past 20 years knew this, even if he didn’t want to.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  🎵We’re farting, forever, oh oh!🎵 - Manatee Like Me by TV on the Radio

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• redbrick@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I had no idea air jet propulsion also worked under water…

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• OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  May I… unknow this now, please and thank youze⁉️

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  • very_well_lost@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Why on earth would you want to unlearn something as awesome as that??

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    • OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The joke, which I apparently absolutely failed at delivering, is that it is SO awesome (how awesome 😎 is it you may ask, well then I will tell you…) than I in fact do not want to unlearn it.

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• the_q@lemmy.zip ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I think I was supposed to be born a manatee.

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