Bibliography Record

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Leakey, Louis S. B. (detail)
   
1958
Dugongs.
Afr. Wild Life 12: 19-20. 1 fig. Mar. 1958.
–Brief gen. acc. of East African dugongs, chiefly remarkable for its insistence that they "mainly" inhabit fresh and brackish water, specifically "the lower reaches and estuaries of the large rivers like the Tana and the Sabaki." Also states that "small family groups" of dugongs defend particular stretches of rivers, and that females nurse calves while upright in the water. These data were evidently obtained from native informants, and may conceivably refer at least in part to the hippopotamus (cf. comment on Beeckman, 1812).

Related Index Records (7)

Accidental Death or Injury
(SEE ALSO: Conservation; Hunting and Capture; Natural Death or Injury)
  x 1958 Leakey, L.S.B. (DD; East Africa; fishing nets; m19.)

Africa
(SEE ALSO: Indian Ocean; Egypt; Madagascar; Red Sea)
  x 1958 Leakey, L.S.B. (DD; East Africa; in large rivers; 19-20.)

Behavior, Agonistic and Territorial
  x 1958 Leakey, L.S.B. (DD; East Africa; in rivers; 19-20.)

Behavior, Epimeletic
  x 1958 Leakey, L.S.B. (DD; East Africa; nursing upright in water; 20.)

Dugong dugon (Müller, 1776) Palmer, 1895
  x v 1958 Leakey, L.S.B. (East Africa; natural history; 19-20.)

Natural Enemies
(SEE ALSO: Natural Death or Injury)
  x 1958 Leakey, L.S.B. (DD; East Africa; crocodiles; m19.)

Salinity Tolerance
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Ingestive)
  x * 1958 Leakey, L.S.B. (DD; East Africa; in rivers; 19-20.)


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