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Her bikini bottom has the same color scheme as the top. A little orange yellow ring is connecting the forth and back. She wears thigh high socks, which share the same features as her gloves: orange-yellow cuffs, greenish gray colored with several white spots and around her feet they fade into a white color. Also, noticeable are the yellow bracelets she wears on her left arm and her right foot.
Her bikini bottom has the same color scheme as the top. A little orange yellow ring is connecting the forth and back. She wears thigh high socks, which share the same features as her gloves: orange-yellow cuffs, greenish gray colored with several white spots and around her feet they fade into a white color. Also, noticeable are the yellow bracelets she wears on her left arm and her right foot.
|reallife=Steller's Sea Cow was first discovered in 1741 around the Commander Islands in the Bering Sea which were also their natural habitat. The species is named after the German Naturalist Georg W. Steller which studied the Sea Cows closely. Steller's Sea Cows were wiped out by hunters in less than 30 years after they were discovered. The last reported exemplar was killed in 1768 and with that the species got fully exterminated.
|reallife=The Steller's sea cow ''(Hydrodamalis gigas)'' is an extinct sirenian. During its time, it was found only around the Commander Islands in the Bering Sea between Alaska and Russia. First described by German zoologist and explorer Georg Wilhelm Steller in 1741, most of what is known about the creature is through his observations and notes.  
[[File:stellersseacow.jpg|thumb|upright=1.0|left|A depiction of the now extinct Steller's Sea Cow]]
Steller's Sea Cow could reach a length of 9 to 10 meters (over 30ft) and a weight around 10 metric tons (22,000 pounds). The Sea Cow had a relatively small head and a broad, horizontal forked tail fluke as well as small stumpy flippers near the front of the body. Her barklike skin was dark brown sometimes spotted with white. Steller's Sea Cows were herbivores, mainly eating kelp and seaweed as they had no teeth. The Sea Cows were described as being highly social. They lived in small family groups and helped injured members. Some Reports say that Steller's Sea Cow showed parental care, with young Sea Cows kept at the front of the herd for protection or attacking potential enemies together.


Scientists have tried to establish whether hunting expeditions killed off Steller's Sea Cow, or whether other factors played a role. Nowadays studies came to a conclusion that Steller's Sea Cow was hunted year for year more frequently by expeditions passing the Bering Sea because of their large amount of meat. A report stated that one Sea Cow could feed 33 men and it was thought sailors stored it to feed themselves on voyages lasting up to a year. Humans hunted the Sea Cows faster than they could reproduce which led to the species extinction.
[[File:stellersseacow.jpg|thumb|upright=1.0|left|A depiction of the now extinct Steller's Sea Cow.]]
 
 
 
[[File:Em - Hydrodamalis gigas model.jpg|thumb|left|Model in the Natural History Museum of London. Photo by Emőke Dénes.]]
|trivia=Today the term Sea Cow is often used to refer to the Manatee or Dugong.
|trivia=Today the term Sea Cow is often used to refer to the Manatee or Dugong.
|reference=*http://www.bbc.co.uk/earth/story/20150613-the-giant-cow-that-swam-the-ocean
|reference=*http://www.bbc.co.uk/earth/story/20150613-the-giant-cow-that-swam-the-ocean
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