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 Bengtson, John L.; Fitzgerald, Shannon M. (detail)
   
1985
Potential role of vocalizations in West Indian manatees.
Jour. Mamm. 66(4): 816-819. 2 figs. Nov. 29, 1985.
–Reports correlations between number of calls and various behaviors of manatees in Blue Spring and the St. Johns River, Florida. Concludes that vocalizations are mainly social and communicative in function, not navigational. Notes the possible use of vocalizations for alarm, greeting, and synchronizing of breathing, and estimates the distances at which manatees can hear various sounds.

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Behavior, Aggregative
(SEE ALSO: Aerial Surveys of Distribution)
  x 1985 Bengtson & Fitzgerald (TM; Florida; keeping group together or greeting with vocalizations; 817.)
Behavior, Investigative, and Sense Perception
(SEE ALSO: Sense Organs; Sound Production)
  x 1985 Bengtson & Fitzgerald (TM; Florida; hearing sensitivity; 817-818.)
Behavior, Shelter-seeking or Escape
(SEE ALSO: Hunting and Capture; Migration and Movements; Natural Death or Injury; Temperature, Effects of)
  x 1985 Bengtson & Fitzgerald (TM; Florida; ?alarm vocalizations; 817.)
Florida
  x 1985 Bengtson & Fitzgerald (TML; Blue Spring & St. Johns R.; vocalizations; 816-819.)
Respiration and Diving
(SEE ALSO: Locomotion)
  x 1985 Bengtson & Fitzgerald (TML; Florida; vocalizations & synchronous respiration; 817.)
Sound Production
  x * 1985 Bengtson & Fitzgerald (TML; Florida; social functions; 816-819.)
Trichechus manatus Linnaeus, 1758
  x 1985 Bengtson & Fitzgerald (Florida; vocalizations & behavior; 816-819.)

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