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Drivers of Habitat Selection by the Endangered Greater Caribbean Manatee in Coastal‐Marine Ecosystems

open access: yesAquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, Volume 36, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT Habitat selection is a fundamental aspect of animal movement and behaviour, involving strategies that influence population regulation, species interactions, community structure and the generation and preservation of biodiversity. The Greater Caribbean Manatee is a megaherbivorous aquatic mammal with high environmental plasticity, found in a ...
Iran C. Normande   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring Marine Mammal Cognition as a Conservation Tool

open access: yesMarine Mammal Science, Volume 42, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT Cognition is an animal's real‐time adaptation system for responding to change. Rapid environmental change, often anthropogenic, is expanding the range and severity of challenges confronting wild animals. Effective conservation requires a multifaceted approach that includes animals' capacities.
Gordon B. Bauer   +21 more
wiley   +1 more source

On the supposed former Existence of a Sirenian

open access: yesProceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1899
(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
openaire   +3 more sources

Fossil turtles and sirenians from the marine Eocene of Navarre and Jaca Basin

open access: yes, 1998
We report several remains of turtles and sirenians from the marine Eocene (Bartonian) of the Pamplona Area (Navarre) and Santa Cilia de Jaca (Huesca), South Pyrenean Basin. Turtles are represented by fragmentary neural plates and sirenians consist of two
Murelaga, Xabier   +4 more
core  

Progesterone monitoring and gestation length in Amazonian manatees (Trichechus inunguis)

open access: yesTheriogenology Wild
Knowledge of pregnancy length and the physiological parameters during pregnancy is an important tool for pregnancy diagnosis in free-ranging and captive individuals and for the correct husbandry of captive pregnant females. Therefore, this study aimed to
Rodrigo S. Amaral   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

JUMPING FROM TURTLES TO WHALES: A PLIOCENE FOSSIL RECORD DEPICTS AN ANCIENT DISPERSAL OF CHELONIBIA ON MYSTICETES

open access: yesRivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 2016
The barnacles included in the superfamily Coronuloidea are epizoic symbionts of various marine vertebrates (including cetaceans, sirenians, and sea turtles) and other crustaceans (crabs and horseshoe crabs).
ALBERTO COLLARETA   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Conservation of marine mammals: pinnipeds and sirenians

open access: yes, 2018
Marine mammals are a broad group of mammals adapted to the aquatic life which depend on the ocean for most or all their life needs. Pinnipeds are highly specialized aquatic carnivores that live in a variety of marine habitats, including freshwater for ...
Pozo Galván, Yaiza Pilar
core  

Correction to: New Miocene sirenians from Nosy Makamby, northwestern Madagascar (Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, (2019), 39, 1, (e1570223), 10.1080/02724634.2019.1570223)

open access: yes, 2019
In our paper “New Miocene sirenians from Nosy Makamby, northwestern Madagascar” (Samonds et al., 2019) there is an error in the caption of Figure 3. The images B and F are lateral views rather than medial as stated; and the images D and H are medial ...
Ernat, Rebekah A.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

First record of an Australian fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus doriferus) feeding on a wobbegong shark (Orectolobus ornatus) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
The Australian fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus doriferus) is listed as a ‘vulnerable’ species in New South Wales (NSW) under the Threatened Species Conservation Act, recovering from exploitation by commercial sealing activities around southeastern ...
Huveneers, C.   +3 more
core  

FIG. 2 in Variation in bone histology of middle Eocene sirenians from western Europe

open access: yes, 2008
FIG. 2. — Histological characteristics of the ribs: A-D, specimen AR1-33 from Ardanatz (Navarre); A, general view of the medullar region at mid-diaphysis.
Bardet, Nathalie   +4 more
core   +1 more source

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