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The Role of Sirenians in Aquatic Ecosystems
, 2012 The role of sirenians in aquatic ecosystems is largely a function of their feeding ecology. Sirenians are large herbivorous aquatic mammals that often congregate and, being mammals, have high energetic requirements relative to other marine herbivores.
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Hearing in Pinnipeds and Sirenians
2001Pinnipeds and sirenians have not been subjects of as extensive investigation of hearing abilities and mechanisms as cetaceans have been. The studies performed on these animals did not reveal extreme hearing capabilities or echolocation. Nevertheless, their hearing system presents a great opportunity for understanding the various ways they have adapted ...
Alexander Ya. Supin +2 more
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The readaptation of Eocene sirenians to life in water
Historical Biology, 2000Eocene sirenians and cetaceans simultaneously and independently evolved similar morphological adaptations to aquatic life. These included increased flexibility in the sacral region, reduction and loss of hind limbs, shortening of the neck, increased skeletal mass, and other modifications.
Daryl P Domning
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Impact of Climate Change and Loss of Habitat on Sirenians
Animal Welfare, 2017 Although the impacts of climate change on the welfare of individual manatees and dugongs are still uncertain, the effects are likely to be through indirect interactions between meteorological and biotic factors and the human responses to climate change ...
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New Miocene sirenians from Nosy Makamby, northwestern Madagascar
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2019 The near lack of vertebrate fossils from the Cenozoic of Madagascar has left many of the details regarding the origin and evolution of the island’s extant faunas unknown. However, recent fossil discoveries from Madagascar’s nearshore marine deposits have
Karen Samonds, Daryl P Domning
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Eocene and Oligocene sirenians (Mammalia) from Kachchh, India
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2006 Discoveries of three species of Eocene sirenians in District Kachchh, State of Gujarat, India, are reported. A species of the protosirenid Protosiren is represented by cranial and postcranial material, and the halitheriine dugongid Eosiren is represented
J G M Thewissen +2 more
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