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Harwood, Kitty (detail)
   
1947
The sea cow is a tourist.
Sports Afield, Nov. 1947: 50, 89. 1 fig.
–Pop. acc. of capturing a female Florida manatee by harpoon for the Prins Valdemar Aquarium, which was housed in a beached ship at Miami. She was released about two weeks later because it was thought she was about to give birth.

Related Index Records (7)

Captivity, Sirenians in
(SEE ALSO: Hunting and Capture; Weed Control)
  x 1947 Harwood, K. (TML; Florida; pop. acc.; 50, 89.)

Florida
  x 1947 Harwood, K. (TML; in capt., Miami; pop. acc.; 50, 89.)

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 1947 Harwood, K. (TML; in capt., Miami; water hyacinth, grass, fruit, bread; 50.)

Food Plants: Eichhornia crassipes
(Pontederiaceae)
  x v 1947 Harwood, K. (TM; Florida; in capt.; 50.)

Hunting and Capture
(SEE ALSO: Accidental Death or Injury; Archeological Sites, Sirenians at; Captivity, Sirenians in; Conservation; Economic Use; Natural Enemies; Weed Control)
  x 1947 Harwood, K. (TML; Florida; live capture by harpoon; 50.)

Manatus latirostris Harlan, 1824
(= Trichechus manatus)
  x 1947 Harwood, K. (Florida; in capt.; pop. acc.; 50, 89.)

Sound Production
  x 1947 Harwood, K. (TM; in capt.; "bellow" when hungry; 50.)


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