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Morales, Patricia
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The life and death of an Amazon manatee.
Proc. Internatl. Assoc. Aquatic Animal Medicine (17th Annual Conference, Biloxi, Mississippi) 1(3): 43-48. 2 tabs. May 1986.
–Describes the captive medical care, diet, and necropsy findings in "Butterball", the T. inunguis which lived at San Francisco's Steinhart Aquarium, 1967-84. In addition to skin and bone damage from a harpoon wound and skin lesions possibly due to nutritional deficiencies, the main findings were pyogranulomatous pneumonia, cirrhosis, testicular necrosis, and other effects of infection by Mycobacterium marinum. Cause of death was cardiac failure associated with the pneumonia.
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Related Index Records (5)
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Bacteriology
(SEE ALSO Virology)
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1986 |
Morales, P. (TI; in capt.; Mycobacterium marinum; 43-48.) |
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Captivity, Sirenians in
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Morales, P. (TI; San Francisco; food, pathology; 43-48.) |
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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.)
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Morales, P. (TI; in capt.; lettuce, cabbage, celery, spinach, fish; 44-45.) |
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Pathology
(SEE ALSO: Bacteriology; Biochemistry; Natural Death or Injury; Parasites; Parasitology; Pollution, Effects of; Temperature, Effects of; Teratology; Virology)
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Morales, P. (TI; in capt., San Francisco; systemic Mycobacterium infection, harpoon wound, skin lesions, etc.; 43-48.) |
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Trichechus inunguis (Natterer in von Pelzeln, 1883) Thomas and Lydekker, 1897
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Morales, P. (in capt., San Francisco; food, pathology; 43-48.) |
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