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Beal, William P. B. (detail)
   
1939
The manatee as a food animal.
Nigerian Field 8(3): 124-126.
–Said to be an extract from Beal (1922), this is also a summary of Ménégaux (1918). It gives a gen. acc. of Manatus senegalensis, its distribution, supposed breeding and food habits, and the possibility of raising it in captivity for its meat, oil, and bones.

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Africa
(SEE ALSO: Indian Ocean; Egypt; Madagascar; Red Sea)
  x 1939 Beal, W.P.B. (TS; gen. acc., econ. use; 125-126.)

Birth and Breeding
(SEE ALSO: Age Determination; Behavior, Sexual; Population Biology; Urogenital System)
  x 1939 Beal, W.P.B. (TS; 125.)

Economic Uses
(SEE ALSO: Archeological Sites, Sirenia at; Hunting and Capture; Medicinal Applications; Religious, Superstitious, or Ornamental Use or Observance; Weed Control)
  x 1939 Beal, W.P.B. (TS; raising for meat, oil, & bones proposed; 125-126.)

Food Plants: Cymodocea nodosa
(Potamogetonaceae)
  x 1939 Beal, W.P.B. (West Africa; 125-126.)

Manatus senegalensis Desmarest, 1817
(homonym of Trichechus senegalensis Link, 1795)
  x 1939 Beal, W.P.B. (gen. acc. & possible econ. use; 125-126.)


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