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"Sikes, Sylvia K."

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 Sikes, Sylvia K. (detail)
   
1974
How to save the mermaids.
Oryx 12(4): 465-470. 3 figs. June 1974.
–Discusses the status of T. senegalensis in Nigeria, including individuals kept in captivity; describes the harpooning technique used by the Kabawa tribe; proposes ranching of manatees for meat as a means of conservation.
  Fauna Preservation Society funding for Sikes' research was announced in Oryx 12(2): 167, Oct. 1973.
 
 
 Sikes, Sylvia K. (detail)
   
2010
Manatees in West Africa: elephants' elusive and rare aquatic cousins.
Newbury (U.K.), Mirage Newbury: a-g + 1-100. 68 figs. 2 maps.
–Describes the author's fieldwork with manatees in Nigeria in the 1970s.
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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