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Powell, James Arthur, Jr. (detail)
   
1978
Evidence of carnivory in manatees (Trichechus manatus).
Jour. Mamm. 59(2): 442. May 30, 1978.
–Describes fish-eating by captive Florida manatees and the removal of fish from gill nets by wild manatees in Jamaica. Only the flesh of the fish was eaten; the bones were left behind.

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Behavior, Ingestive
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Epimeletic; Behavior, Et-epimeletic; Food; Mastication; Milk)
  x 1978 Powell, J.A., Jr. (TM; eating flesh of fish & leaving bones; 442.)

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 * 1978 Powell, J.A., Jr. (TM; wild & captive; fish; 442.)

Jamaica
  x 1978 Powell, J.A., Jr. (TMM; eating fish; 442.)

Trichechus manatus Linnaeus, 1758
  x * 1978 Powell, J.A., Jr. (eating fish; 442.)


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