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Vosseler, J.
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1924-25 |
Pflege und Haltung der Seekühe (Trichechus) nebst Beiträgen zu ihrer Biologie.
Pallasia (Dresden) 2(2): 58-67, 113-133, pls. 5-6; 2(3): 167-180, 213-230, 2 tabs. 2 figs.
–Perhaps the most elaborate anecdotal account of the captive biology of sirs. yet written. After listing and discussing 24 instances of manatees kept in captivity (59-63), Vosseler describes the capture and transport of two T. inunguis from Brazil to Germany, and gives detailed advice on transporting manatees by sea and land (63-67, 113-114). He then describes many aspects of the biology and life in captivity of the two Amazonian specimens in Hamburg, including: captive conditions (114-119), feeding (including coprophagy and eating meat and fish) and defecation (119-129), illnesses (129-133), growth and external measurements (167-173), supposed sexual dimorphism of the tail, flipper, and head (173-175), sexual behavior (175-180), characteristics of the epidermis (213-217), experiments on their senses of taste and smell (217-220), appearance of their eyes (220), hearing (220-221), movements, breathing, sleep, and locomotion on land (221-225). (Their subsequent fatal illnesses are described in Vosseler, 1930.) Notes that their feeding and activity are not exclusively nocturnal (226), and that manatees are compatible with other species in zoo exhibits (227); extols the value of sirs. to zoos and the relative ease of keeping them (228-230).
Finally and most unexpectedly, this work includes some (rather insignificant) observations and remarks on Dugong in German East Africa and the author's unsuccessful attempts to determine whether they use their tusks in feeding (225-226).
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Africa
(SEE ALSO: Indian Ocean; Egypt; Madagascar; Red Sea)
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1924-25 |
Vosseler, J. (DD; German East Africa; feeding behavior; 225-226.) |
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Anatomy
(SEE ALSO: Brain and Nervous System; Circulatory System; Digestive System; Embryology; Endocrinology; Growth Rates; Histology; Myology; Pathology; Respiratory System; Skeleton; Urogenital System; and under species)
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1924-25 |
Vosseler, J. (TI; measurements, 171-173; ?sexual dimorphism, 173-175.) |
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Behavior (General and Miscellaneous)
(SEE ALSO: Birth and Breeding; Captivity, Sirenians in; Locomotion; Migration and Movements; Sound Production; Respiration and Diving; and under species)
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1924-25 |
Vosseler, J. (TI; in capt.; ?play, 222; general activity levels, 226-227.) |
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Behavior, Agonistic and Territorial
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1924-25 |
Vosseler, J. (TI; in capt.; preferred locations in tank; 221.) |
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Behavior, Et-epimeletic
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Ingestive)
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1924-25 |
Vosseler, J. (TI; in capt.; attempted nursing by calf on unrelated calf; 176.) |
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Behavior, Ingestive
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Epimeletic; Behavior, Et-epimeletic; Food; Mastication; Milk)
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1924-25 |
Vosseler, J. (TI; in capt.; coprophagy, 122-123; use of lips, 125-126; feeding not only nocturnal, 226; DD, German East Africa, ?use of tusks, 225-226.) |
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Behavior, Investigative, and Sense Perception
(SEE ALSO: Sense Organs; Sound Production)
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1924-25 |
Vosseler, J. (TI; taste & smell, 123-124, 126, 179-180, 217-220; taste/smell experiments, 217-219; hearing, 220-221.) |
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Behavior, Sexual
(SEE ALSO: Birth and Breeding)
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1924-25 |
Vosseler, J. (TI; in capt.; 131, 175-180, 217; supposedly longer flippers of male used to embrace female, 175.) |
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Birth and Breeding
(SEE ALSO: Age Determination; Behavior, Sexual; Population Biology; Urogenital System)
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1924-25 |
Vosseler, J. (TI; in capt.; ?menstruation, 177; ?lack of seasonality, locating of mates, 179-180.) |
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Captivity, Sirenians in
(SEE ALSO: Hunting and Capture; Weed Control)
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1924-25 |
Vosseler, J. (history of manatees in capt., 58-63; TI, capture & transport, 63-67; in Hamburg, 113-133, 167-180, 213-227; compatibility with other animal species, 227.) |
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Excretion and Defecation
(SEE ALSO: Salinity Tolerance; Urogenital System)
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1924-25 |
Vosseler, J. (TI; in capt.; flatulence, feces, 127, 131-132; urination, 128; apparently bloody feces, 177.) |
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Food
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Ingestive; Captivity, Sirenians in; Digestive System; Food Plants; Weed Control) (NOTE: Plants reported as part of the captive but not the natural diet of sirs. will not necessarily be found under Food Plants. Papers referring to them are, however, indexed here.)
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1924-25 |
Vosseler, J. (TI; in capt., Hamburg; lettuce, cabbage, bread, Pistia, etc., 65, 119-121, 124-125; coprophagy, 122-123; meat, fish, 123-124.) |
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Food Plants: Pistia stratiotes
(Araceae)
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1924-25 |
Vosseler, J. (TI; in capt.; 65.) |
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Growth Rates
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1924-25 |
Vosseler, J. (TI; in capt., Hamburg; 124, 168-172.) |
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Halicore Illiger, 1811
(= Dugong)
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1924-25 |
Vosseler, J. (German East Africa; feeding behavior; 225-226.) |
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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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1924-25 |
Vosseler, J. (TI; Brazil; for aquarium; 63-64.) |
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Integument
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1924-25 |
Vosseler, J. (TI; length & spacing of body hairs, 172-173; horny epidermal fringe on tail, 213-215, pl. 6; shedding of epidermal cells, color & texture of epidermis, 215-217.) |
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Locomotion
(SEE ALSO: Respiration and Diving)
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1924-25 |
Vosseler, J. (TI; in capt.; swimming & head movements, 222-224; on land, 225.) |
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Manatus americanus (Link, 1795) Illiger, 1815
(= Trichechus manatus; also used by many authors for T. inunguis)
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1924-25 |
Vosseler, J. (in capt.; historical records; 59-60.) |
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Manatus koellikeri Kükenthal, 1897
(= Trichechus manatus)
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1924-25 |
Vosseler, J. (validity doubtful; 59.) |
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Pathology
(SEE ALSO: Bacteriology; Biochemistry; Natural Death or Injury; Parasites; Parasitology; Pollution, Effects of; Temperature, Effects of; Teratology; Virology)
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1924-25 |
Vosseler, J. (TI; in capt., Hamburg; ?bloat, 131-132, 177; slow healing of wounds, 132.) |
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Respiration and Diving
(SEE ALSO: Locomotion)
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Vosseler, J. (TI; in capt., Hamburg; lengthening of respiratory interval with age, 221; breathing while asleep, 224.) |
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Salinity Tolerance
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Ingestive)
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1924-25 |
Vosseler, J. (Trichechus; in capt.; 129.) |
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Sense Organs
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Investigative, and Sense Perception; Brain and Nervous System; Digestive System; Skeleton; Sound Production)
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1924-25 |
Vosseler, J. (possible chemical-sensory fields, 219-220; appearance of eye, 220.) |
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Temperature, Effects of
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Shelter-seeking or Escape; Migration & Movements; Natural Death or Injury; Pollution, Effects of; Thermoregulation)
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1924-25 |
Vosseler, J. (TI; in capt., Hamburg; 65-66, 113, 115, 128-131.) |
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Trichechus inunguis (Natterer in von Pelzeln, 1883) Thomas and Lydekker, 1897
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1924-25 |
Vosseler, J. (in capt.; historical records, 60-63, 130; in Hamburg, 63-67, 113-133, 167-180, 213-230.) |
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Trichechus latirostris (Harlan, 1824) True, 1884
(= Trichechus manatus)
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1924-25 |
Vosseler, J. (in capt., historical records, 59-65, 130; body size, 167.) |
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Trichechus senegalensis Link, 1795
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1924-25 |
Vosseler, J. (in capt.; historical records; 60-62.) |
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