Accidental Death or Injury
(SEE ALSO: Conservation; Hunting and Capture; Natural Death or Injury)
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1966 |
Thomas, D. (DD; Rameswaram, India; nets; 80-82.) |
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Behavior, Aggregative
(SEE ALSO: Aerial Surveys of Distribution)
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x |
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1966 |
Thomas, D. (DD; India; herds of up to 400-500; 80-81.) |
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Behavior, Epimeletic
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x |
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1966 |
Thomas, D. (DD; India; holding & nursing young; 80.) |
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Behavior, Ingestive
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Epimeletic; Behavior, Et-epimeletic; Food; Mastication; Milk)
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x |
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1966 |
Thomas, D. (DD; India; eating seagrass rhizomes; feeding with tail up; 80.) |
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Behavior, Shelter-seeking or Escape
(SEE ALSO: Hunting and Capture; Migration and Movements; Natural Death or Injury; Temperature, Effects of)
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x |
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1966 |
Thomas, D. (DD; India; young ?staying farther from shore; 80.) |
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Birth and Breeding
(SEE ALSO: Age Determination; Behavior, Sexual; Population Biology; Urogenital System)
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x |
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1966 |
Thomas, D. (DD; India; many 8-ft.-long females pregnant; 80.) |
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Captivity, Sirenians in
(SEE ALSO: Hunting and Capture; Weed Control)
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x |
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1966 |
Thomas, D. (DD; India; 81.) |
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Dugong Lacépède, 1799
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1966 |
Thomas, D. (India; natural history, hunting; 80-82.) |
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Economic Uses
(SEE ALSO: Archeological Sites, Sirenia at; Hunting and Capture; Medicinal Applications; Religious, Superstitious, or Ornamental Use or Observance; Weed Control)
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x |
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1966 |
Thomas, D. (DD; India; meat, oil, 80-81; bones, 80.) |
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Excretion and Defecation
(SEE ALSO: Salinity Tolerance; Urogenital System)
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x |
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1966 |
Thomas, D. (DD; India; floating feces; 80.) |
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Hunting and Capture
(SEE ALSO: Accidental Death or Injury; Archeological Sites, Sirenians at; Captivity, Sirenians in; Conservation; Economic Use; Natural Enemies; Weed Control)
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x |
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1966 |
Thomas, D. (DD; Rameswaram, India; nets; 80-82.) |
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India
(SEE ALSO: Indian Ocean)
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1966 |
Thomas, D. (DD; Rameswaram; natural history, hunting; 80-82.) |
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Medicinal Applications
(SEE ALSO: Economic Use)
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x |
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1966 |
Thomas, D. (DD; India; meat, for intestinal disorders & for causing abortion, 80; oil, for dysentery, intestinal ulcers, & piles; 81.) |
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Migration and Movements
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Aggregative; Behavior, Shelter-seeking; Locomotion; Temperature, Effects of)
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x |
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1966 |
Thomas, D. (DD; India; hunted, Nov.-Feb.; young not coming as close inshore as adults; movements during monsoon; 80-81.) |
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Salinity Tolerance
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Ingestive)
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x |
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1966 |
Thomas, D. (DD; in capt., India; kept in brackish water; 81.) |
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Sri Lanka
(formerly Ceylon)
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x |
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1966 |
Thomas, D. (DD; meat imported from India; 80-81.) |
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Vernacular Names
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1966 |
Thomas, D. (DD; India; avulia, kadalpanni; 80.) |
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