#wardell the manatee

[kuhulua]

Sleepy Wardell!

[callmemanatee]

An idea for future Animal Crossing games: Wardell's house-sitting service 💙

When you're not going to play the game for several days or weeks, you can tell Wardell the manatee that you're going on vacation. While you're gone, he'll keep your house free of roaches, pull weeds, and tell the villagers you'll be back soon.

This feature could make Animal Crossing more enjoyable for those who can't play regularly because of travel, school or work, illness, or any other reason.

Plus, Wardell is such a chill guy. He'd be a great house-sitter!💙

[frunkus-framkus]

❤️💦Wardell Stimboard 💦❤️

🌀✨️Credits!✨️🌀

[artbyjasonleung]

Wardell from Animal Crossing 🪸

[terabyte-teddybear]

wardell stimboard featuring the ocean!

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[lea-andres]

My completely dead attention span has ALMOST looped back around to the beginning lmao.

Consider: Cinnamon roll workaholic dogy who deserves to take a break (Isabelle) X Cinnamon roll soft spoken gentle giant manatee (Wardell).

"Lea this sounds like your rarepair you coined for the fandom we don't talk about you're on a self inflicted exile from" Yeah well I think small wound up character X big chill character is ALWAYS a recipe for success, change my mind.

[dianapocalypse]

if you make a playlist for wardell the manatee every song will be replaced automatically with a song by jimmy buffett

i don’t make the rules

[mayorwhisper]

It's nice to take a break with a friend

[bwiebe-art]

I can't believe how amazing the Animal Crossing Direct was!! I needed to draw Wardell immediately, he's way too cute 😭❤

[encyclopika]

Animal Crossing Fish - Explained #139

Brought to you by a marine biologist back at it again...

CLICK HERE FOR THE AC FISH EXPLAINED MASTERPOST!

At this point, I imagine a lot of people have moved on from ACNH - you’ve caught every bug, fish, and fossil, or at least you tried to; your island is as perfect as your vision; you’ve done everything! And then the update hit and we were sucked back into this amazing little game that got many of us through the pandemic. With that update came a few more aquatic friends I’d like to cover, as well as “Fish Past” from other games that didn’t make the cut on this game. So, without further adieu, let me talk about my favorite addition - Wardell:

BABY BOY BABY

The minute I saw him in the trailer, I knew I’d be back on my shit making these ACNH posts. How could I ignore him? Many of you can probably recognize which animal he represents - the manatee! Or, at least he is of the Order Sirenia, which is a very small Order, just the manatees and dugong. I would say he is most definitely the West Indian Manatee, Trichechus manatus, the species everyone probably thinks of when they think manatee:

I know they had to give him feet, but really, manatees and dugongs look like a weird cross between a seal and porpoise. Like other marine mammals, they have the fusiform body shape, flippers, and a back paddle. Manatees and dugongs also have blubber, but despite their round, friend shape, the blubber layer is actually quite thin, making most Sirenians coastal and tropical, at least talking extant species. But, that’s where the similarities end.

Sirenians aren’t very closely related to seals, otters, whales, or any other marine mammal. Their closest relatives, believe it or not, are elephants!

By Fritz Geller-Grimm - Own work, CC BY-SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1510265 Basically a flattened flipper made from as elephant foot, haha.

Sirenians are pretty unique, in that they are the only vegetarian marine mammal (all other marine mammals are predators). Manatees and the dugong spend a lot of time using their specialized mouths to rip up and eat sea grass and other aquatic vegetation. Unfortunately, as weird and wonderful as sirenians are, they are all vulnerable to extinction. Being exclusively coastal, sometimes living in estuaries and up rivers, puts them very close to human habitation. Pollution and habitat destruction of coastal areas are some of the main driving forces putting Sirenians at risk. 

Still, they’re mammals, so people do their darnedest to protect them. In the United States, the West Indian Manatee is protected by a number of laws, including the Endangered Species Act, despite the population being down-listed to “vulnerable” in recent years. 

And there you have it! Fascinating stuff, no?

[downinkokomo]

🥺

[kuhulua]

I personally love the sound of nature, at the beach especially!

[the-year-that-never-was]

Everyone who plays Happy Home Paradise

Can we talk about it???

The unspoken atrocity in Happy Home Paradise

(Not Wardell .. not the sunglasses.)

The absolute Abomination that is the pocket Popsicle….

[recklesshorizons]

noooooooooo

wardell you tattle tail :(

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO

NOOOOOOOOOOOO

[inked-manatee]

My amiibos finally arrived and I got to create my greatest masterpiece on Paradise Planning so far. May I present to you... Wardell's ¡Casa De Manatí !

(Will probably add to it later. This has been a chonky boi appreciation post 💙)

[sanity-jester]

<3 Wardell and Orbdell <3