Bibliography Record

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Rathbun, Galen B.; Brownell, Robert L., Jr.; Ralls, Katherine S.; Engbring, John (detail)
   
1988
Status of dugongs in waters around Palau.
Mar. Mamm. Sci. 4(3): 265-270. 1 tab. 1 fig. July 1988.
–Aerial surveys in 1983 confirmed the results of observations in 1977-78, viz., that the dugong population is very small (maximum count = 38) and highly endangered by subsistence hunting.

Related Index Records (6)

Aerial Surveys of Distribution
  x 1988 Rathbun et al. (DD; Palau; 265-270.)

Behavior, Aggregative
(SEE ALSO: Aerial Surveys of Distribution)
  x 1988 Rathbun et al. (DD; Palau; group sizes; 268.)

Dugong dugon (Müller, 1776) Palmer, 1895
  x 1988 Rathbun et al. (Palau; status; 265-270.)

Hunting and Capture
(SEE ALSO: Accidental Death or Injury; Archeological Sites, Sirenians at; Captivity, Sirenians in; Conservation; Economic Use; Natural Enemies; Weed Control)
  x 1988 Rathbun et al. (DD; Palau; harpoons, guns, dynamite; 268.)

Natural Death or Injury
(SEE ALSO: Captivity, Sirenians in; Natural Enemies; Pathology; Temperature, Effects of)
  x 1988 Rathbun et al. (TMM; Honduras; starvation in lagoon; 306-307.)

Palau
  x 1988 Rathbun et al. (DD; status; 265-270.)


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