Blood Reference Intervals for Antillean Manatees (Trichechus manatus manatus) from Puerto Rico. [PDF]
Vet Med Int, 2022 Antillean manatees (Trichechus manatus manatus) are endangered throughout the southwestern Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean coast of Central and South America, the Greater Antilles, and the northeastern coast of South America to Brazil.
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Parasite fauna of wild Antillean manatees (Trichechus manatus manatus) of the Andean Region, Colombia. [PDF]
Parasit Vectors, 2019 Antillean manatees (Trichechus manatus manatus) are large herbivorous aquatic mammals living in limited areas of South, Central and North America. As with other aquatic mammals, Antillean manatees can be infected by a variety of protozoan and metazoan ...
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Health assessment and seroepidemiologic survey of potential pathogens in wild Antillean manatees (Trichechus manatus manatus). [PDF]
PLoS One, 2012 The Antillean manatee (Trichechus manatus manatus), a subspecies of the West Indian manatee, inhabits fresh, brackish, and warm coastal waters distributed along the eastern border of Central America, the northern coast of South America, and throughout ...
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Neonatal Abandonment and Hydrocephalus in Antillean Manatees (Trichechus manatus manatus): Is There a Causal Relationship? [PDF]
Animals (Basel)Simple Summary Antillean manatees are among the most endangered marine animals, and there is a paucity of data on free-living animals’ behavior in the northern region of Brazil, where they occur in sympatry with the Amazonian manatee.
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Occurrence of endoparasites in wild Antillean manatees (Trichechus manatus manatus) in Colombia. [PDF]
Int J Parasitol Parasites Wildl, 2018 The recognized impact of parasites in wildlife populations demands surveillance of endangered species like the Antillean manatees (Trichechus manatus manatus) in Colombia. We conducted a parasitological survey in four rescued sea cows in order to document the parasite diversity of this sirenian in the Caribbean wetland of Colombia and contribute to the
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Vocal complexity in Antillean manatees (Trichechus manatus manatus)
Behaviour, 2022 Vocal complexity can be expressed through variations in repertoire size, structure, and individual manatee repertoires. Here we aimed to assess the complexity of the vocal behaviour of Antillean manatees living in captivity (i.e., artificial pools) and
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Fecal microbiota of captive Antillean manatee Trichechus manatus manatus.
FEMS Microbiology Letters, 2019 Herbivorous animals have unique intestinal microbiota that greatly helps with plant digestion in the host; however, knowledge on the microbiota of marine herbivores is limited.
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Cytochemical staining of leukocytes and platelets in the Florida manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris): identification of a bilobed monocyte similar to other members of the Paenungulata. [PDF]
Front Vet Sci, 2023 Manatees (Antillean-, Amazonian, and African-) and dugongs belong to the Order Sirenia, and when combined with elephants and rock hyraxes, form the Paenungulata. A bilobed mononuclear cell has previously been identified in elephants and rock hyraxes, but
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The presence of ovarian cysts in a captive Antillean manatee (Trichechus manatus manatus L. 1758). [PDF]
BMC Vet Res, 2017 Several pathological changes associated with reproductive systems of marine mammals have been reported in primary literature. However, no such records exist regarding ovarian cysts in the Antillean manatee (Trichechus manatus manatus L. 1758).A nulliparous female Antillean manatee, held in captivity at the Wroclaw Zoological Garden, died in April 2015.
Goździewska-Harłajczuk K +2 more
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Three Decades of Antillean Manatee (Trichechus manatus manatus) Stranding Along the Brazilian Coast
Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine, 2017 Alive Antillean manatee stranding is one of the main challenges for the conservation of the species in Brazil. In the present study, data on Antillean manatee stranding recorded by the CMA/ICMBio’s Wild Animals Rehabilitation Center from 1987 to 2015 ...
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