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"Coates, Christopher"

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Coates, Christopher W. (detail)
   
1939
Baby mermaid - a manatee at the Aquarium.
Bull. New York Zool. Soc. 42(5): 140-148. 4 figs. Oct. 2, 1939.
–Detailed account of the care and behavior of an extremely emaciated 36-inch male T. inunguis calf from the Rio Tapajós, which survived 22 days at the New York Aquarium in August 1939.
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Coates, Christopher W. (detail)
   
1940
Manatees at the Aquarium.
Bull. New York Zool. Soc. 43(3): 99-100. 1 fig. June 1, 1940.
–Brief notice and photograph of two T. inunguis, 4 and 5 feet long, respectively, which arrived in New York on Apr. 2, 1940, having lived in the Manaus (Brazil) municipal zoo for about 10 months. Their food and feeding are also discussed.

Daryl P. Domning, Research Associate, Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560, and Laboratory of Evolutionary Biology, Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, Howard University, Washington, D.C. 20059.
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