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MacMillan, L. (detail)
   
1955
The dugong.
Walkabout 21(2): 17-20. 2 figs. Feb. 1, 1955.
–Detailed account of the natural history of the dugong in northwestern Australia, including shark predation, Aboriginal hunting with harpoons, economic use, and eyewitness descriptions of calving and the mother's teaching the calf to swim.

Related Index Records (14)

Australia
  x * 1955 MacMillan, L. (DD; distr. & habits; 17-19.)

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 1955 MacMillan, L. (DD; Australia; gen. acc.; 17-19.)

Behavior, Agonistic and Territorial
  x 1955 MacMillan, L. (DD; fighting rare, 18; ?territory, m19.)

Behavior, Epimeletic
  x * 1955 MacMillan, L. (DD; Australia; teaching young to breathe; 18.)

Birth and Breeding
(SEE ALSO: Age Determination; Behavior, Sexual; Population Biology; Urogenital System)
  x * 1955 MacMillan, L. (DD; Australia; 18.)

Dugong australis (Retzius, 1794) [author of combination not identified]
(= Dugong dugon)
  x * 1955 MacMillan, L. (Australia; 17-20.)

Economic Uses
(SEE ALSO: Archeological Sites, Sirenia at; Hunting and Capture; Medicinal Applications; Religious, Superstitious, or Ornamental Use or Observance; Weed Control)
  x 1955 MacMillan, L. (DD; hide, bones, oil, 18; meat, 18-19.)

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 1955 MacMillan, L. (DD; Australia; plants only, no roots; 17-18.)

Hunting and Capture
(SEE ALSO: Accidental Death or Injury; Archeological Sites, Sirenians at; Captivity, Sirenians in; Conservation; Economic Use; Natural Enemies; Weed Control)
  x * 1955 MacMillan, L. (DD; Australia; nets, harpoons; 19.)

Locomotion
(SEE ALSO: Respiration and Diving)
  x 1955 MacMillan, L. (DD; Australia; swimming, 18-19; on land, 18.)

Natural Enemies
(SEE ALSO: Natural Death or Injury)
  x 1955 MacMillan, L. (DD; Australia; sharks, killer whales; 18.)

Respiration and Diving
(SEE ALSO: Locomotion)
  x 1955 MacMillan, L. (DD; Australia; 18.)

Urogenital System
(SEE ALSO: Excretion and Defecation)
  x 1955 MacMillan, L. (DD; fat around gravid uterus; m18.)

Vernacular Names
  x 1955 MacMillan, L. (DD; Malay, Javanese; 17.)


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