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Thomas, Davidson (detail)
   
1966
Natural history of dugong in Rameswaram waters.
Madras Jour. Fish. 2: 80-82. 1 fig. July 1966.
–Detailed account of dugong netting, with data on catch, seasonal occurrence, movements, miscellaneous behavior, economic and medicinal uses, and the capture and transport of two dugongs for display in Madras in 1961-62. Thomas' claim of large extant herds of dugongs was thought by S. Jones (1981: 46) to have been mistakenly based on Neophocaena.

Related Index Records (17)

Accidental Death or Injury
(SEE ALSO: Conservation; Hunting and Capture; Natural Death or Injury)
  x 1966 Thomas, D. (DD; Rameswaram, India; nets; 80-82.)

Behavior, Aggregative
(SEE ALSO: Aerial Surveys of Distribution)
  x 1966 Thomas, D. (DD; India; herds of up to 400-500; 80-81.)

Behavior, Epimeletic
  x 1966 Thomas, D. (DD; India; holding & nursing young; 80.)

Behavior, Ingestive
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Epimeletic; Behavior, Et-epimeletic; Food; Mastication; Milk)
  x 1966 Thomas, D. (DD; India; eating seagrass rhizomes; feeding with tail up; 80.)

Behavior, Shelter-seeking or Escape
(SEE ALSO: Hunting and Capture; Migration and Movements; Natural Death or Injury; Temperature, Effects of)
  x 1966 Thomas, D. (DD; India; young ?staying farther from shore; 80.)

Birth and Breeding
(SEE ALSO: Age Determination; Behavior, Sexual; Population Biology; Urogenital System)
  x 1966 Thomas, D. (DD; India; many 8-ft.-long females pregnant; 80.)

Captivity, Sirenians in
(SEE ALSO: Hunting and Capture; Weed Control)
  x 1966 Thomas, D. (DD; India; 81.)

Dugong Lacépède, 1799
  x * 1966 Thomas, D. (India; natural history, hunting; 80-82.)

Economic Uses
(SEE ALSO: Archeological Sites, Sirenia at; Hunting and Capture; Medicinal Applications; Religious, Superstitious, or Ornamental Use or Observance; Weed Control)
  x * 1966 Thomas, D. (DD; India; meat, oil, 80-81; bones, 80.)

Excretion and Defecation
(SEE ALSO: Salinity Tolerance; Urogenital System)
  x 1966 Thomas, D. (DD; India; floating feces; 80.)

Hunting and Capture
(SEE ALSO: Accidental Death or Injury; Archeological Sites, Sirenians at; Captivity, Sirenians in; Conservation; Economic Use; Natural Enemies; Weed Control)
  x * 1966 Thomas, D. (DD; Rameswaram, India; nets; 80-82.)

India
(SEE ALSO: Indian Ocean)
  x * 1966 Thomas, D. (DD; Rameswaram; natural history, hunting; 80-82.)

Medicinal Applications
(SEE ALSO: Economic Use)
  x 1966 Thomas, D. (DD; India; meat, for intestinal disorders & for causing abortion, 80; oil, for dysentery, intestinal ulcers, & piles; 81.)

Migration and Movements
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Aggregative; Behavior, Shelter-seeking; Locomotion; Temperature, Effects of)
  x 1966 Thomas, D. (DD; India; hunted, Nov.-Feb.; young not coming as close inshore as adults; movements during monsoon; 80-81.)

Salinity Tolerance
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Ingestive)
  x 1966 Thomas, D. (DD; in capt., India; kept in brackish water; 81.)

Sri Lanka
(formerly Ceylon)
  x 1966 Thomas, D. (DD; meat imported from India; 80-81.)

Vernacular Names
  x 1966 Thomas, D. (DD; India; avulia, kadalpanni; 80.)


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