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Coates, Christopher W. (detail)
   
1939
Baby mermaid - a manatee at the Aquarium.
Bull. New York Zool. Soc. 42(5): 140-148. 4 figs. Oct. 2, 1939.
–Detailed account of the care and behavior of an extremely emaciated 36-inch male T. inunguis calf from the Rio Tapajós, which survived 22 days at the New York Aquarium in August 1939.

Related Index Records (10)

Behavior, Ingestive
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Epimeletic; Behavior, Et-epimeletic; Food; Mastication; Milk)
  x 1939 Coates, C.W. (TI; in capt.; food position preference; eating sand & mud; 143.)

Brazil
  x 1939 Coates, C.W. (TI; Tapajós R.; 142.)

Captivity, Sirenians in
(SEE ALSO: Hunting and Capture; Weed Control)
  x * 1939 Coates, C.W. (TI; New York; 141-148.)

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.)
  x 1939 Coates, C.W. (TI; in capt., New York; lettuce, etc.; 142-143.)

Hunting and Capture
(SEE ALSO: Accidental Death or Injury; Archeological Sites, Sirenians at; Captivity, Sirenians in; Conservation; Economic Use; Natural Enemies; Weed Control)
  x 1939 Coates, C.W. (TI; Brazil; harpoons, nets, guns; 148.)

Locomotion
(SEE ALSO: Respiration and Diving)
  x 1939 Coates, C.W. (emaciated TI; in capt.; floating & swimming; 141, 144-145, 147.)

Pathology
(SEE ALSO: Bacteriology; Biochemistry; Natural Death or Injury; Parasites; Parasitology; Pollution, Effects of; Temperature, Effects of; Teratology; Virology)
  x 1939 Coates, C.W. (TI; in capt., New York; "ulcers" in back muscles; 148.)

Respiration and Diving
(SEE ALSO: Locomotion)
  x 1939 Coates, C.W. (TI calf; in capt., New York; diving times [up to 14 min.], 145; "snapping" nostrils shut, 146.)

Thermoregulation
(SEE ALSO: Temperature, Effects of)
  x 1939 Coates, C.W. (TI; in capt., New York; preference for warm water; 143.)

Trichechus inunguis (Natterer in von Pelzeln, 1883) Thomas and Lydekker, 1897
  x * 1939 Coates, C.W. (in capt., New York; 141-148.)


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