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Loyer, Bertrand (detail)
   
1993
How now, sea cow?
BBC Wildlife 11(10): 54-55. 2 figs. Oct. 1993.
–Describes the unusual behavior of a lone dugong encountered by a film crew in Vanuatu, including poking divers with its tusks and "trying to drown" turtles. Notes a movement of the top of the nasal passages associated with the animal's production of "chirping sounds".

Related Index Records (6)

Behavior (General and Miscellaneous)
(SEE ALSO: Birth and Breeding; Captivity, Sirenians in; Locomotion; Migration and Movements; Sound Production; Respiration and Diving; and under species)
  x 1993 Loyer, B. (DD; Vanuatu; observations on lone individual; 54-55.)

Behavior, Investigative, and Sense Perception
(SEE ALSO: Sense Organs; Sound Production)
  x 1993 Loyer, B. (DD; Vanuatu; investigating divers; "excited" by the color red; 54-55.)

Dugong dugon (Müller, 1776) Palmer, 1895
  x 1993 Loyer, B. (Vanuatu; behavior of lone individual; 54-55.)

Natural Enemies
(SEE ALSO: Natural Death or Injury)
  x 1993 Loyer, B. (DD; Vanuatu; wounds from sharks; attempts to ?drown turtles; 55.)

Pacific Ocean
(SEE ALSO: East Indies; Palau; circumpacific regions)
  x 1993 Loyer, B. (DD; Vanuatu; 54-55.)

Sound Production
  x 1993 Loyer, B. (DD; Vanuatu; "chirps" and associated nasal movements; 55.)


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