A child’s mermaids washed up on the beach of Tanjung Benoa Badung regency, Bali. Children mermaids are estimated separately from the parent or the group is now being treated in one of the fish ponds in the serangan island’s residents Denpasar .

Once rescued residents in Tanjung Benoa Beach, the son of a mermaid with a length of about 1 meter and weight was 30 kilograms more BKSDA handed to Bali and then brought to the Serangan island Denpasar . The attack on the island, kids mermaid or dugong-dugong was treated in a reservoir pond’s fish-sized local residents.

The discovery of a mermaid kids very rarely happened in Bali is a good citizen’s attention to stay on the Serangan island . Adult citizens and children trooped to come to see and hold direct and protected mammals are rare.

“We found the people, the head of the mermaids under the age of 6 months in the wound condition, the possibility of the propeller hit the ship or the net. During a patient here, part of the head injury will be treated to recover, before moving back out to sea. This will take about a week, “explained Sumarsono, head of the section area of I, Conservation and Natural Resources (BKSDA) Bali.

Although often referred to as fish, mermaids or dugong-dugong or sea cow is an animal actually mammals, warm-blooded animals that live and feed in the sea. The top of this mermaid body color brownish gray lower body while the brighter color.

Body length adult dugong-dugong reach 240 to 270 centimeters and weighs between 230 to 360 pounds. In its habitat, eating regular mermaid seaweed that is easily digested and can live up to the age of 17 years.