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"Whiting, Scott D."

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 Whiting, Scott D. (detail)
   
1997
Opportunistic observations of marine mammals from the coastal waters of Fog Bay, Northern Territory.
Northern Territory Naturalist 15: 16-26. 2 tabs. 1 fig. Pl. 4.
–Lists & discusses 15 sightings of 18 dugongs made from a small boat in 1996-97. Notes group sizes, apparent sheltering behavior, association with remoras, and injury to one animal possibly caused by a fishing net or line.
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 Whiting, Scott D. (detail)
   
1999
Use of the remote Sahul Banks, northwestern Australia, by dugongs, including breeding females.
Mar. Mamm. Sci. 15(2): 609-615. 2 figs. Apr. 5, 1999.
–Reports a total of 14 dugongs, including 3 cow-calf pairs, seen from the air in November 1996 on the Sahul Banks (mainly on Ashmore Reef). Three were seen in water 90 m deep, 30 km from the nearest shallow shoal. Biogeographic scenarios and conservation problems are discussed.
 
 
 Whiting, Scott D. (detail)
   
2002a
Dive times for foraging dugongs in the Northern Territory.
Australian Mammalogy 23: 167-168.
–Records a maximum dive time of 658 seconds, for a dugong foraging on algae.
 
 
 Whiting, Scott D. (detail)
   
2002b
Rocky reefs provide foraging habitat for dugongs in the Darwin region of northern Australia.
Australian Mammalogy 24: 147-150. 1 tab. 1 fig.
–Describes dugongs regularly feeding on algal-covered intertidal rocky reefs.
 
 
 Sheppard, James K.; Preen, Anthony R.; Marsh, Helene D.; Lawler, Ivan R.; Whiting, Scott D.; Jones, Rhondda E. (detail)
   
2006
Movement heterogeneity of dugongs, Dugong dugon (Müller) over large spatial scales.
Jour. Exper. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 334(1): 64-83.
 
 
 Whiting, Scott D. (detail)
   
2008
Movements and distribution of dugongs (Dugong dugon) in a macro-tidal environment in northern Australia.
Australian Jour. Zool. 56: 215-222.
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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