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Petit, G. (detail)
   
1923a
Sur le dugong de Madagascar. Notes ethnographiques.
Bull. Mem. Soc. Anthrop. Paris (7)4: 75-83.
–Interesting account of dugongs, dugong hunting, and native customs and myths connected with the dugong in the Indo-Pacific region.

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Africa
(SEE ALSO: Indian Ocean; Egypt; Madagascar; Red Sea)
  x 1923a Petit, G. (DD; traditional customs; Comoro Is., 75-77, 80; Red Sea, 77, 83; French Somaliland, 80.)

Behavior, Aggregative
(SEE ALSO: Aerial Surveys of Distribution)
  x 1923a Petit, G. (DD; Madagascar; m77.)

Behavior, Agonistic and Territorial
  x 1923a Petit, G. (DD; fighting for females; m77.)

Behavior, Epimeletic
  x 1923a Petit, G. (DD; carrying young; 78.)

Behavior, Ingestive
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Epimeletic; Behavior, Et-epimeletic; Food; Mastication; Milk)
  x 1923a Petit, G. (DD; Madagascar; 75.)

Behavior, Investigative, and Sense Perception
(SEE ALSO: Sense Organs; Sound Production)
  x 1923a Petit, G. (DD; sight, hearing, smell; 77.)

Behavior, Sexual
(SEE ALSO: Birth and Breeding)
  x 1923a Petit, G. (DD; Madagascar; 77-78.)

Birth and Breeding
(SEE ALSO: Age Determination; Behavior, Sexual; Population Biology; Urogenital System)
  x 1923a Petit, G. (DD; Madagascar; 77-78.)

Dugong dugon (Müller, 1776) Palmer, 1895
  x v * 1923a Petit, G. (Madagascar; ethnography; 75-83.)

Economic Uses
(SEE ALSO: Archeological Sites, Sirenia at; Hunting and Capture; Medicinal Applications; Religious, Superstitious, or Ornamental Use or Observance; Weed Control)
  x 1923a Petit, G. (DD; Red Sea; hide, tusks; 83.)

Food Plants: Cymodocea
(Potamogetonaceae)
  x 1923a Petit, G. (Madagascar; 75.)

Halicore hemprichii Ehrenberg, 1832
(= Dugong dugon)
  x 1923a Petit, G. (mating; m77.)

Hunting and Capture
(SEE ALSO: Accidental Death or Injury; Archeological Sites, Sirenians at; Captivity, Sirenians in; Conservation; Economic Use; Natural Enemies; Weed Control)
  x * 1923a Petit, G. (DD; Madagascar, harpoons, nets, rituals, 75-77, 81-82; New Guinea, nets, 82.)

Madagascar
  x * 1923a Petit, G. (DD; 75-83.)

Medicinal Applications
(SEE ALSO: Economic Use)
  x * 1923a Petit, G. (DD; Comoro Islands; bone, tusks, fat; 83.)

Mermaid Legend
(SEE ALSO: Religious, Superstitious, or Ornamental Use or Observance; Ri)
  x * 1923a Petit, G. (Madagascar; myth; 78-82.)

Natural Death or Injury
(SEE ALSO: Captivity, Sirenians in; Natural Enemies; Pathology; Temperature, Effects of)
  x 1923a Petit, G. (DD; scratched by shells; 77.)

Papua New Guinea
(SEE ALSO: Ri)
  x 1923a Petit, G. (DD; New Guinea, 82; Torres Strait, 83.)

Philippine Islands
  x 1923a Petit, G. ("dugong-bone society"; 83.)

Red Sea
(SEE ALSO: Africa; Asia)
  x 1923a Petit, G. (DD; 77, 83.)

Religious, Superstitious, or Ornamental Use or Observance
(SEE ALSO: Economic Use; Mermaid Legend)
  x * 1923a Petit, G. (DD; Madagascar, tears, 77, myth, 78-82, ritual, 80-82; Tabernacle, 82; charms, Philippine dugong-bone society, Torres Strait, 83; Trichechus, 79, 81.)

Respiration and Diving
(SEE ALSO: Locomotion)
  x 1923a Petit, G. (DD; 76-77.)

Sense Organs
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Investigative, and Sense Perception; Brain and Nervous System; Digestive System; Skeleton; Sound Production)
  x 1923a Petit, G. (dugong tears; 77.)

Sound Production
  x 1923a Petit, G. (DD; 76.)

Vernacular Names
  x 1923a Petit, G. (DD; Madagascar & environs; 75.)


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