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Status of the Amazonian manatee (Trichechus inunguis) in the Cuyabeno Reserve, Ecuador

ACI Avances en Ciencias e Ingenierías, 2010
Amazonian manatees live in black water rivers and lakes in the Amazon basin. A study of Amazonian manatees in the Cuyabeno Reserve conducted by Timm et al.
Judith Denkinger
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American manatees adjust their diet composition and trophic niche breadth across different coastal regions

Limnology and Oceanography Letters, Volume 11, Issue 3, May 2026.
Abstract Marine mammals can exhibit high plasticity in foraging strategies, but how such plasticity is driven by environmental conditions is poorly understood. The American manatee (Trichechus manatus), a large, endangered herbivore, inhabits marine, estuarine, and freshwater environments.
Camila Carvalho de Carvalho, Emma Deeks, Leandro L. Ciotti, Silvina Botta, Miriam Marmontel, Margareth Copertino, Fábia de Oliveira Luna, Fernanda Niemeyer Löffer Attademo, Vitor Luz Carvalho, João Carlos Gomes Borges, Alexandra Fernandes Costa, Renata Emin‐Lima, Pavel Kratina, Eduardo Resende Secchi   +13 more
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Trends in Medicinal Uses of Edible Wild Vertebrates in Brazil

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2017, Issue 1, 2017., 2017
The use of food medicines is a widespread practice worldwide. In Brazil, such use is often associated with wild animals, mostly focusing on vertebrate species. Here we assessed taxonomic and ecological trends in traditional uses of wild edible vertebrates in the country, through an extensive ethnobiological database analysis. Our results showed that at
Rômulo Romeu Nóbrega Alves, Tacyana Pereira Ribeiro Oliveira, Maria Franco Trindade Medeiros, Ghee T. Tan   +3 more
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Wild Animals Used as Food Medicine in Brazil

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2013, Issue 1, 2013., 2013
The connection between eating and healing is common in traditional folk medical systems, and the multiple possibilities resulting from the combination of biodiversity and culture confer a wealth and complexity in terms of knowledge of the flora and fauna as to their potential as food medicine.
Rômulo Romeu Nóbrega Alves, Tacyana Pereira Ribeiro Oliveira, Ierecê Lucena Rosa, Maria Franco Trindade Medeiros   +3 more
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Animal‐Based Remedies as Complementary Medicines in the Semi‐Arid Region of Northeastern Brazil

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2011, Issue 1, 2011., 2011
Animals (and their derived products) are essential ingredients in the preparation of many traditional remedies. Despite its prevalence in traditional medical practices worldwide, research on medicinal animals has often been neglected in comparison to medicinal plant research.
Rômulo R. N. Alves, José A. A. Barbosa, Silene L. D. X. Santos, Wedson M. S. Souto, Raynner R. D. Barboza   +4 more
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Occupancy and population density estimates of the Amazonian manatee in eastern Ecuador

Endangered Species Research, 2021
The Amazonian manatee Trichechus inunguis has been categorized as Vulnerable by the IUCN. There have been few studies on the species in its natural habitats due to its elusive nature and the low visibility of its aquatic habitats.
V Narváez Ruano, V Utreras B, G Zapata-Ríos   +2 more
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Riverine people's knowledge of the Vulnerable Amazonian manatee Trichechus inunguis in contrasting protected areas

Oryx, 2019
Traditional knowledge gained through daily interactions with the environment can yield insights into processes at temporal or spatial scales that may be overlooked by conventional scientific research. Ninety interviews were conducted with riverine people
L. Crema, V. M. Ferreira da Silva, M. T. Piedade   +2 more
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Interaction Between Traditional Fishers and the Neotropical Otter Lontra longicaudis (Olfers, 1818) in a Brazilian Amazon Estuary

Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, Volume 35, Issue 12, December 2025.
ABSTRACT The neotropical otter Lontra longicaudis (Olfers, 1818) is a semi‐aquatic carnivore from the Mustelidae family with a piscivorous habit that interacts with riverine populations because of fishing resources, and this relationship is often negative, especially in the Amazon where fishing represents an important activity for several communities ...
Dayse Souza Marques, Izabelle da Silva Mendes, César França Braga, Renata Emin‐Lima, Thuareag Monteiro Trindade dos Santos   +4 more
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Global importance of Amazonian freshwaters

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Volume 23, Issue 10, December 2025.
Amazonian freshwaters have large influences on regional and global climate, harbor remarkable and unique species, and are vital to human society. Nevertheless, as compared to their terrestrial counterparts in the Amazon, these freshwaters have received less attention from the international conservation community.
Clinton N Jenkins, Simone Athayde, Claire F Beveridge, Sandra B Correa, Jhan‐Carlo Espinoza, Sebastian A Heilpern, Guido A Herrera‐R, LuLu Victoria‐Lacy, Paulo Olivas, Antonio Oliveira, Natalia C Piland, Renata Utsunomiya, Elizabeth P Anderson   +12 more
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Avaliação de técnicas de rádio-rastreamento e marcação do peixe-boi da Amazônia, Trichechus inunguis (Mammalia: Sirenia) [PDF]

Acta Amazonica, 1981
Resumo Os resultados de um estudo para avaliar técnicas de rádio-rastreamento e marcação por congelamento, aplicadas no estudo da ecologia de peixes-bois selvagens da Amazônia, são aqui apresentados. Um Trichechus inunguis jovem, macho, foi rádio-marcado
Robin C. Best, G. Gene Montgomery, Megumi Yamakoshi   +2 more
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