Manatee Adoption Center!
Feel free to download, use, and share these pixel manatees.
But your Modern Mermaid! good gracious me!
Who'd be inwiggled away from his tracks
Or be driven to bung up his ears with wax
By the wiles and smiles of a manatee?
A sort of shapeless squab sea-lubber,
A blundering bulk of leather and blubber,
Like an overgrown bottle of India-rubber;
The clumsiest, wobblingest, queerest of creatures,
With nothing but small gimlet-holes for features.
This a mermaid? Oh, don't tell me!
It's simply some sly scientifical spree..."
-from Punch magazine, July 20, 1878