The 1000 Day Holiday

Ive seen a lot of animals during this trip.

Big, small, scary, dangerous…Smart and Stupid.

I had the chance to snorkel with Manatees in Caye Caulker, Belize.

While watching them, you really get the sense that there’s not much going on in the brain department. They move extremely slowly and it took them a couple of minutes to turn and swim to us to investigate what we were. They slowly swam up to us, and cruised past. I couldn’t see much movement in the eyes as it swam by.

Being slow and stupid in appearance they may be the weirdest creature of my trip. Yet upon researching them, they evolved from the same family as elephants but went back to the sea, have an advanced long term memory and can learn tasks/tricks much like dolphins.

So I think they win the laziest animal award. It takes dedication to evolve back into the sea, shorten your trunk to a funny shaped lip and basically become a sea blimp.

Maybe they’re the smart ones after all.