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"Moore, Joseph Curtis"

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 Moore, Joseph Curtis (detail)
   
1946
Mammals from Welaka, Putnam County, Florida.
Jour. Mamm. 27(1): 49-59. "Feb. 1946" (mailed Mar. 14, 1946).
–Reports sightings of manatees in the St. Johns River, including an observation of possible mating behavior (58).
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 Moore, Joseph Curtis (detail)
   
1951a
The range of the Florida manatee.
Quart. Jour. Florida Acad. Sci. 14(1): 1-19. 1 tab. 1 fig. "Mar. 1951" (mailed Aug. 8, 1951).
–Presents data from interviews and sightings, showing that manatee winter range in Florida lies south of the Sebastian River (east coast) and Charlotte Harbor (west coast); that many manatees migrate north in summer but seldom leave Florida; and that they use springs as natural warm-water refuges. Discusses the osteological basis for distinguishing Trichechus m. manatus and T. m. latirostris, concludes that Texan manatees represent the former, and suggests that the northern Gulf Coast acts as a barrier separating the two subspecies.
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 Moore, Joseph Curtis (detail)
   
1951b
The status of the manatee in the Everglades National Park, with notes on its natural history.
Jour. Mamm. 32(1): 22-36. 2 tabs. 1 fig. Feb. 15, 1951.
–Includes notes on habitat, reproduction, respiration, behavior, body size and measurements, intelligence, food, and effects of cold. Gives further details of the captive birth recorded by Barbour, 1937 (26).
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 Moore, Joseph Curtis (detail)
   
1953
Distribution of marine mammals to Florida waters.
Amer. Midland Naturalist 49(1): 117-158. 19 figs. Jan. 1953.
–Reports (for the first time?) aggregations of manatees during cold snaps (120-121, 156); records sightings of calves in all months except December (121-122). Manatees also mentioned in key to marine mammals, 153.
 
 
 Moore, Joseph Curtis (detail)
   
1954
Want to see a Florida manatee?
Animal Kingdom 54 [or 57?] (1): 11-13. 1 fig. Jan. 1954.
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 Moore, Joseph Curtis (detail)
   
1956
Observations of manatees in aggregations.
Amer. Mus. Novit. No. 1811: 1-24. 5 figs. Dec. 23, 1956.
–Reports the first detailed observations of wild manatees, based on studies of the population in the Miami River, Florida, 1949-55, using scars from boat collisions and other naturally-occurring marks to identify individuals. Includes some records of numbers of manatees observed, observations on relationship of aggregations to temperature, attendance records of manatees at aggregations, and behavioral observations regarding play, greeting, courtship, reproduction, behavior of young, suckling posture, and locomotion.
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 Moore, Joseph Curtis (detail)
   
1957
Newborn young of a captive manatee.
Jour. Mamm. 38(1): 137-138. Feb. 25, 1957.
–Reports on a Florida manatee calf born in 1955 at Ojus, Florida, and compares its behavior to observations in earlier reports.
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 Moore, Joseph Curtis (detail)
   
1961
Sailors' siren.
Nat. Hist. (New York) 70(1): 54-55. 2 figs. Jan. 1961.
–Pop. acc. of dugongs, with two photos of African specimens in captivity at Mombasa, Kenya.
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 Moore, Joseph Curtis (detail)
   
1964
A mysterious encounter.
Chicago Nat. Hist. Mus. Bull. 35(11): 7-8. 1 fig. + cover photo. Nov. 1964.
–Pop. acc. of observations of a manatee with its tail badly mangled by a boat propeller, and other scarred individuals, in the Miami River, Florida.
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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