Bibliography Record

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Zeiller, Warren (detail)
   
1981
The management of West Indian manatees (Trichechus manatus) at the Miami Seaquarium. In: R. L. Brownell, Jr., & K. Ralls (eds.), The West Indian manatee in Florida. Proceedings of a workshop held in Orlando, Florida 27-29 March 1978 (q.v.).
Tallahassee, Florida Dept. Nat. Res. (iv + 154): 103-110. 1 tab. 1 fig.
–Describes the Seaquarium's past, present, and proposed manatee facilities, the care and feeding of an orphaned calf, its measurements and growth on an artificial milk formula, the treatment of ectoparasitic infestations, the control of algal growth on manatees and in tanks, mating in captivity, and the birth of a calf conceived in captivity.

Related Index Records (14)

Behavior, Epimeletic
  x 1981 Zeiller, W. (TM; in capt.; helping young to breathe; 109.)

Behavior, Ingestive
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Epimeletic; Behavior, Et-epimeletic; Food; Mastication; Milk)
  x 1981 Zeiller, W. (TM; Florida; in capt.; conditioning to press trigger to obtain fresh water; 104.)

Behavior, Sexual
(SEE ALSO: Birth and Breeding)
  x 1981 Zeiller, W. (TM; Florida; in capt.; mating; 109-110.)

Birth and Breeding
(SEE ALSO: Age Determination; Behavior, Sexual; Population Biology; Urogenital System)
  x 1981 Zeiller, W. (TM; Miami, Florida; in capt.; 109-110.)

Captivity, Sirenians in
(SEE ALSO: Hunting and Capture; Weed Control)
  x 1981 Zeiller, W. (TML; Miami, Florida; husbandry; 103-110.)

Excretion and Defecation
(SEE ALSO: Salinity Tolerance; Urogenital System)
  x 1981 Zeiller, W. (TML; in capt.; hard feces of calf cured with mineral oil; 106.)

Florida
  x 1981 Zeiller, W. (TML; in capt., Miami; husbandry; 103-110.)

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.)
  x 1981 Zeiller, W. (TML; in capt., Miami; milk, vegetables, etc., 105-106; palm fronds, 107.)

Growth Rates
  x 1981 Zeiller, W. (TML; in capt., Miami; 106.)

Milk
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Epimeletic; Behavior, Ingestive)
  x 1981 Zeiller, W. (TML; artificial formula; 105-106.)

Parasites: Harpacticus pulex Humes, 1964
(Copepoda)
  x 1981 Zeiller, W. (TM; Florida; in capt.; 107-108.)

Parasitology
(SEE ALSO: Bacteriology; Community Ecology; Parasites)
  x 1981 Zeiller, W. (TML; in capt., Florida; Harpacticus ectoparasites, 107-108; use of mullet & copper sulfate to control algae, 108.)

Pathology
(SEE ALSO: Bacteriology; Biochemistry; Natural Death or Injury; Parasites; Parasitology; Pollution, Effects of; Temperature, Effects of; Teratology; Virology)
  x 1981 Zeiller, W. (TML; in capt., Miami, Florida; intestinal impaction from eating palm fronds; ectoparasitic lesions; 107-108.)

Trichechus manatus Linnaeus, 1758
  x 1981 Zeiller, W. (Florida; captive husbandry; 103-110.)


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