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, 2015 Many West Indian manatees (Trichechus manatus) that strand along the northeast Brazilian coast are calves, which are often rescued and carried to the Peixe-Boi Project rehabilitation facilities in Itamaracá, Pernambuco State where they are prepared to ...
Agostinho Bombassaro Junior +3 more
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Abundance of manatees in Panama estimated from side‐scan sonar
Wildlife Society Bulletin, 2017 The Antillean manatee (Trichechus manatus manatus) is found in tropical and subtropical riverine and coastal waters across the Caribbean region. Little is known of its population status, particularly in Central America.
Hector M. Guzman, Richard Condit
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EvoDevo, 2011 Background Mammals as a rule have seven cervical vertebrae, except for sloths and manatees. Bateson proposed that the change in the number of cervical vertebrae in sloths is due to homeotic transformations. A recent hypothesis proposes that the number of
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Gulf Research Reports, 1981 The taxonomy and the distribution of the American manatee Trichechus manatusare reviewed briefly. Its distribution extends from 50°N on the eastern coast of North America to 19°S in South America. Records from the northern Gulf coast are given including sightings from Mississippi in January 1979, and one from the open ocean off Louisiana in July 1979.
Gunter, Gordon, Corcoran, Gerald
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Parasites & Vectors, 2019 Background Antillean manatees (Trichechus manatus manatus) are large herbivorous aquatic mammals living in limited areas of South, Central and North America.
Juan Vélez +8 more
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, 2022 While much is known regarding limitless horizontal replacement of manatee teeth, the morphology and topography of the teeth have not been formally described, nor have interspecific differences and ontogenic changes in relative tooth size been described ...
Goulbourne, Lyle
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Third Grade Manatee Curriculum—Lesson 16: Sharing What We Know about Manatees
EDIS, 2015 This 1-page fact sheet is the sixteenth lesson of the Third Grade Manatee Workbook series. This curriculum provides a series of individual lessons covering manatee biology and ecology, as well as highlighting some of the ways that humans impact and can ...
Maia McGuire, Ruth Francis-Floyd
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Status of semi-captive manatees in Jamaica
, 2003 The West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus) is one of the most endangered species in Jamaica. Four manatees were impounded at the Alligator Hole River on the south coast of the island since 1981.
Mignucci-Giannoni, A. A. +5 more
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Third Grade Manatee Curriculum—Lesson 15: Collecting Data about Manatees [PDF]
, 2015 This 11-page fact sheet is the fifteenth lesson of the Third Grade Manatee Workbook series. This curriculum provides a series of individual lessons covering manatee biology and ecology, as well as highlighting some of the ways that humans impact and can ...
Maxine Floyd +2 more
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Dietary Transfer of Heavy Metals in Manatees [PDF]
, 2017 In recent decades, manatees and dugongs globally have exhibited potentially detrimental levels of a variety of heavy metals in their body tissues. The threatened Florida manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris), which is a subspecies of the West Indian ...
Smith, E. M. +3 more
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