Observations on the behaviour of the dugong (Dugong dugon Müller, 1776) from waters of the Lease Islands, eastern Indonesia

Contributions to Zoology

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 71-77

  De Iongh, H H ^a   Bierhuizen, B ^b   Van Orden, B ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Institute for Systematics and Population Biology   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Cultivation grazing; Dugong; Feeding ecology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032325781     PISSN: 00678546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/18759866-06701003     Document Type: Article

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