Leakey, Louis S. B.

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Leakey, Louis S. B. (detail)
1958Dugongs.
Afr. Wild Life 12: 19-20. 1 fig. Mar. 1958.
—Brief gen. acc. of East African dugongs, chiefly remarkable for its insistence that they "mainly" inhabit fresh and brackish water, specifically "the lower reaches and estuaries of the large rivers like the Tana and the Sabaki." Also states that "small family groups" of dugongs defend particular stretches of rivers, and that females nurse calves while upright in the water. These data were evidently obtained from native informants, and may conceivably refer at least in part to the hippopotamus (cf. comment on Beeckman, 1812).