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Oke, Vic R. (detail)
   
1967
A brief note on the dugong Dugong dugon at Cairns Oceanarium.
Internatl. Zoo Yearbook 7: 220-221.
–Reports on a female from northern Queensland, Australia, kept in captivity for 3 months in 1966; comments on its feeding, swimming, and play, and eventual death (possibly from poisoning by copper sulphate used to control algae in the water).

Related Index Records (10)

Australia
  x 1967 Oke, V.R. (DD; northern Queensland; in capt.; 220-221.)

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 1967 Oke, V.R. (DD; in capt.; 220-221.)

Behavior, Ingestive
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Epimeletic; Behavior, Et-epimeletic; Food; Mastication; Milk)
  x 1967 Oke, V.R. (DD; in capt.; feeding only at bottom or from hand; 220.)

Behavior, Investigative, and Sense Perception
(SEE ALSO: Sense Organs; Sound Production)
  x 1967 Oke, V.R. (DD; in capt.; response to gong; 221.)

Captivity, Sirenians in
(SEE ALSO: Hunting and Capture; Weed Control)
  x 1967 Oke, V.R. (DD; Cairns, Australia; 220-221.)

Dugong dugon (Müller, 1776) Palmer, 1895
  x 1967 Oke, V.R. (Queensland; in capt.; 220-221.)

Excretion and Defecation
(SEE ALSO: Salinity Tolerance; Urogenital System)
  x 1967 Oke, V.R. (DD; in capt.; m221.)

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 1967 Oke, V.R. (DD; in capt., Cairns, Australia; 220.)

Locomotion
(SEE ALSO: Respiration and Diving)
  x 1967 Oke, V.R. (DD; in capt.; swimming; 220-221.)

Pathology
(SEE ALSO: Bacteriology; Biochemistry; Natural Death or Injury; Parasites; Parasitology; Pollution, Effects of; Temperature, Effects of; Teratology; Virology)
  x 1967 Oke, V.R. (DD; in capt., Australia; copper sulfate poisoning; 221.)


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