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Reynolds, John E., III (detail)
   
1981a
Behavior patterns in the West Indian manatee, with emphasis on feeding and diving.
Florida Scientist 44(4): 233-242. 4 tabs. 1 fig.
–Presents quantitative data on T. manatus in Blue Lagoon, Miami, Florida, regarding activity patterns, feeding, dive times, aggregations, and miscellaneous behavior such as hauling out to feed, climbing barriers, and "body-surfing"; also lists food plants eaten.

Related Index Records (17)

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 * 1981a Reynolds, J.E., III (TM; Florida; 233-242; activity patterns, 235, 237-239.)

Behavior, Aggregative
(SEE ALSO: Aerial Surveys of Distribution)
  x 1981a Reynolds, J.E., III (TM; Florida; herd size; 238-239.)

Behavior, Ingestive
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Epimeletic; Behavior, Et-epimeletic; Food; Mastication; Milk)
  x * 1981a Reynolds, J.E., III (TM; Florida; 236-237, 240.)

Florida
  x 1981a Reynolds, J.E., III (TML; Blue Lagoon, Miami; behavior; 233-242.)

Food Plants: Anabaena
(blue-green alga; Nostocaceae)
  x 1981a Reynolds, J.E., III (Florida; 236, 240.)

Food Plants: Ceratophyllum demersum
(Ceratophyllaceae)
  x 1981a Reynolds, J.E., III (Florida; 236, 240.)

Food Plants: Hydrilla verticillata
(Hydrocharitaceae)
  x 1981a Reynolds, J.E., III (Florida; 236, 240.)

Food Plants: Mougeotia
(green alga; Zygnemataceae)
  x 1981a Reynolds, J.E., III (Florida; 236.)

Food Plants: Panicum hemitomon
(Gramineae)
  x 1981a Reynolds, J.E., III (Florida; 237, 240.)

Food Plants: Phragmites communis
(Gramineae)
  x 1981a Reynolds, J.E., III (Florida; 236-237, 240.)

Food Plants: Rhizoclonium
(green alga; Cladophoraceae)
  x 1981a Reynolds, J.E., III ("Rhizoclinium"; Florida; 236.)

Food Plants: Spirogyra
(green alga; Zygnemataceae)
  x 1981a Reynolds, J.E., III (Florida; 236.)

Food Plants: Vaucheria
(yellow-green alga; Vaucheriaceae)
  x 1981a Reynolds, J.E., III (Florida; 236.)

Locomotion
(SEE ALSO: Respiration and Diving)
  x 1981a Reynolds, J.E., III (TML; Florida; feeding more than half out of water, 237, 240; climbing barriers, 235-236, 238-239.)

Migration and Movements
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Aggregative; Behavior, Shelter-seeking; Locomotion; Temperature, Effects of)
  x 1981a Reynolds, J.E., III (TML; Blue Lagoon, Florida; not affected by tides; 235, 237.)

Respiration and Diving
(SEE ALSO: Locomotion)
  x * 1981a Reynolds, J.E., III (TML; Florida; diving times; 237, 241.)

Trichechus manatus Linnaeus, 1758
  x * 1981a Reynolds, J.E., III (Blue Lagoon, Miami; behavior; 233-242.)


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