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Powell, James Arthur, Jr.; Belitsky, David W.; Rathbun, Galen B. (detail)
   
1981
Status of the West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus) in Puerto Rico.
Jour. Mamm. 62(3): 642-646. 2 tabs. 1 fig. Aug. 20, 1981.
–Reports that aerial surveys in Puerto Rico in 1976-79 counted up to 51 manatees; gives notes on their occurrence in and drinking of fresh water, their preference for calm waters, and their mortality in fishing nets. The manatee population is said to be "small and widely distributed".

Related Index Records (7)

Aerial Surveys of Distribution
  x 1981 Powell et al. (TM; Puerto Rico; 642-646.)

Behavior, Shelter-seeking or Escape
(SEE ALSO: Hunting and Capture; Migration and Movements; Natural Death or Injury; Temperature, Effects of)
  x 1981 Powell et al. (TM; Puerto Rico; favoring calm waters; 644.)

Hunting and Capture
(SEE ALSO: Accidental Death or Injury; Archeological Sites, Sirenians at; Captivity, Sirenians in; Conservation; Economic Use; Natural Enemies; Weed Control)
  x 1981 Powell et al. (TMM; Puerto Rico; nets; 645.)

Natural Death or Injury
(SEE ALSO: Captivity, Sirenians in; Natural Enemies; Pathology; Temperature, Effects of)
  x 1981 Powell et al. (TMM; Puerto Rico; calf stranded; 645.)

Puerto Rico
  x * 1981 Powell et al. (TMM; status; 642-646.)

Salinity Tolerance
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Ingestive)
  x 1981 Powell et al. (TMM; Puerto Rico; occurrence in & drinking of fresh water; 642, 644.)

Trichechus manatus Linnaeus, 1758
  x 1981 Powell et al. (Puerto Rico; status & distr.; 642-646.)


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