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Anderson, Paul K. (detail)
   
1979
Dugong behavior: on being a marine mammalian grazer.
Biologist 61(4): 113-144. 10 figs. Nov. 1979.
–Excellent review of dugong ethology with many thought-provoking ideas and speculations, including observations on anatomy, locomotion, respiration and diving, feeding, social interactions, reproduction, defense against predators, resting and calving sites, responses to humans, daily and seasonal movements, and critical aspects of dugong habitat.

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Anatomy
(SEE ALSO: Brain and Nervous System; Circulatory System; Digestive System; Embryology; Endocrinology; Growth Rates; Histology; Myology; Pathology; Respiratory System; Skeleton; Urogenital System; and under species)
  x 1979 Anderson, P.K. (DD; external morphology; 114-120.)

Behavior (General and Miscellaneous)
(SEE ALSO: Birth and Breeding; Captivity, Sirenians in; Locomotion; Migration and Movements; Sound Production; Respiration and Diving; and under species)
  x * 1979 Anderson, P.K. (DD; review; 113-144.)

Behavior, Aggregative
(SEE ALSO: Aerial Surveys of Distribution)
  x 1979 Anderson, P.K. (DD; Australia; separation between individuals, 127; groups, 136, 141.)

Behavior, Agonistic and Territorial
  x 1979 Anderson, P.K. (DD; agonistic behavior, 127; ?home ranges, 140.)

Behavior, Epimeletic
  x 1979 Anderson, P.K. (DD; Australia; swimming positions of cow & calf, 129-130; protection of calves & ?communication of traditional knowledge, 137.)

Behavior, Ingestive
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Epimeletic; Behavior, Et-epimeletic; Food; Mastication; Milk)
  x 1979 Anderson, P.K. (DD; different feeding modes for large & small seagrasses, 124-125; flippers probably not used, 125.)

Behavior, Investigative, and Sense Perception
(SEE ALSO: Sense Organs; Sound Production)
  x 1979 Anderson, P.K. (DD; Australia; investigating observers; 137-138.)

Behavior, Sexual
(SEE ALSO: Birth and Breeding)
  x 1979 Anderson, P.K. (DD; Australia; categorization of behavioral elements; 128-129.)

Behavior, Shelter-seeking or Escape
(SEE ALSO: Hunting and Capture; Migration and Movements; Natural Death or Injury; Temperature, Effects of)
  x 1979 Anderson, P.K. (DD; flattening against or hugging bottom, 128, 139; resting & calving sites, 132-133, 139-140; avoidance of SCUBA & boats, 138; effects of hunting pressure, 139.)

Birth and Breeding
(SEE ALSO: Age Determination; Behavior, Sexual; Population Biology; Urogenital System)
  x 1979 Anderson, P.K. (DD; calving in shallow, hypersaline areas; stranding & "sunburn" scars; 133.)

Circulatory System
(including lymphatic system)
  x 1979 Anderson, P.K. (DD; rapid blood clotting an ?anti-shark adaptation; 127.)

Community Ecology
(SEE ALSO: Food; Food Plants; Natural Enemies; Paleoecology; Parasites; Parasitology)
  x 1979 Anderson, P.K. (DD; possible competition with turtles & man; 136.)

Dugong dugon (Müller, 1776) Palmer, 1895
  x * 1979 Anderson, P.K. (review of behavior; 113-144.)

Food
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Ingestive; Captivity, Sirenians in; Digestive System; Food Plants; Weed Control) (NOTE: Plants reported as part of the captive but not the natural diet of sirs. will not necessarily be found under Food Plants. Papers referring to them are, however, indexed here.)
  1979 Anderson, P.K. (DD; Australia, "bushy alga", 125, 131; Palau, sea cucumbers, 135; seagrasses, 125, 134-135.)

Hunting and Capture
(SEE ALSO: Accidental Death or Injury; Archeological Sites, Sirenians at; Captivity, Sirenians in; Conservation; Economic Use; Natural Enemies; Weed Control)
  x 1979 Anderson, P.K. (DD; Palau; harpoons; skin thought "impenetrable" after being struck by first spear; use of unbarbed points; 127.)

Locomotion
(SEE ALSO: Respiration and Diving)
  x * 1979 Anderson, P.K. (DD; "cocking" flukes for acceleration, 114-115; use of flippers in braking, 114; head movements, 115, 122; rostral disc compressed laterally when swimming, 116; swimming, 120-124; ?hydrodynamic assistance to calves, 130.)

Migration and Movements
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Aggregative; Behavior, Shelter-seeking; Locomotion; Temperature, Effects of)
  x 1979 Anderson, P.K. (DD; travel routes, ?home range, seasonal migrations, open-water travel; 140-141.)

Natural Enemies
(SEE ALSO: Natural Death or Injury)
  x 1979 Anderson, P.K. (DD; blood clotting & "skin hardening" as ?anti-predator adaptations, 127; scar from shark attack, 128, 131; sharks, ?crocodiles, ?killer whales, ?stonefish, 135.)

Parasitology
(SEE ALSO: Bacteriology; Community Ecology; Parasites)
  x 1979 Anderson, P.K. (DD; remoras; 135-136.)

Pathology
(SEE ALSO: Bacteriology; Biochemistry; Natural Death or Injury; Parasites; Parasitology; Pollution, Effects of; Temperature, Effects of; Teratology; Virology)
  x 1979 Anderson, P.K. (DD; "sunburn" scars; 131, 133.)

Respiration and Diving
(SEE ALSO: Locomotion)
  x 1979 Anderson, P.K. (DD; exhalation directed forward, 117; respiratory behavior, 125-126.)

Salinity Tolerance
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Ingestive)
  x 1979 Anderson, P.K. (DD; no need for fresh water, 132; calving in hypersaline areas, 133; tolerances, 133-134.)

Sound Production
  x 1979 Anderson, P.K. (DD; ?use of nasal passages; 119.)

Temperature, Effects of
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Shelter-seeking or Escape; Migration & Movements; Natural Death or Injury; Pollution, Effects of; Thermoregulation)
  x 1979 Anderson, P.K. (DD; Shark Bay, Australia; natural thermal refugia; 133.)


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