Manatee emoji?

[Mark E. Shoulson]

On 11/23/2016 10:15 AM, James Kass wrote:
> http://patch.com/florida/southtampa/petition-drive-aims-raise-manatee-awareness-adorable-way
>
> If enough people sign the petition, will Unicode add a manatee emoji?
> And, how about wolverines and lemmings?  Are any petitions underway
> for them?  How many signatures on a petition would be needed before
> Unicode would consider adding a non-existent character to the
> repertoire?
Aren't many emoji "non-existent[sic]" characters prior to their adoption?

~mark