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x Boorer, Michael K.
  1972
Some aspects of stereotyped patterns of movement exhibited by zoo animals.
Internatl. Zoo Yearbk. 12: 164-168.
–Mentions a T. manatus at the London Zoo that "invariably swam round its pool in a clockwise direction", and speculates that, as a result, its muscles may have become unequally developed on the two sides of its body (165).

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x  1972Boorer, M.K. (TM; London; swimming clockwise; m165.)
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x  1972Boorer, M.K. (TM; in capt.; swimming clockwise; m165.)
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x  1972Boorer, M.K. (TM; in capt.; clockwise swimming & possible asymmetrical muscle development; m165.)
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x  1972Boorer, M.K. (in capt.; clockwise swimming; m165.)