Bibliography Record

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Lomolino, Mark V.; Ewel, Katherine Carter (detail)
   
1984
Digestive efficiencies of the West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus).
Florida Scientist 47(3): 176-179. 2 tabs.
–In a captive adult female Florida manatee fed lettuce and water hyacinth, the consumption rate was low relative to body size but digestive efficiencies were high (about 80% for Eichhornia, 90% for lettuce), due to the low fiber content of the plants, the long passage time (about 6 days), and the long gut.

Related Index Records (8)

Behavior, Ingestive
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Epimeletic; Behavior, Et-epimeletic; Food; Mastication; Milk)
  x 1984 Lomolino & Ewel (TM; consumption rate; 177.)

Captivity, Sirenians in
(SEE ALSO: Hunting and Capture; Weed Control)
  x 1984 Lomolino & Ewel (TML; Florida; digestive efficiencies; 176-179.)

Digestive System
(SEE ALSO: Excretion and Defecation; Food; Mastication; Parasites; Parasitology; Sense Organs)
  x 1984 Lomolino & Ewel (TM; digestive efficiencies; 176-179.)

Excretion and Defecation
(SEE ALSO: Salinity Tolerance; Urogenital System)
  x 1984 Lomolino & Ewel (TML; in capt.; feces; 6-day passage rate; 176-177.)

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 1984 Lomolino & Ewel (TM; consumption rates & digestive efficiencies; 176-179.)

Food Plants: Eichhornia crassipes
(Pontederiaceae)
  x 1984 Lomolino & Ewel (TM; Florida; in capt.; digestive efficiencies; 176-179.)

Food Plants: Lactuca sativa
(lettuce; Asteraceae) (SEE ALSO under Food)
  x 1984 Lomolino & Ewel ("Lactuca lactuca"; TM; Florida; in capt.; digestive efficiencies; 176-179.)

Trichechus manatus Linnaeus, 1758
  x 1984 Lomolino & Ewel (digestive efficiencies; 176-179.)


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