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x Harry, Robert Rees
  1956
"Eugenie" the dugong mermaid.
Pacific Discovery 9(1): 21-27. 5 figs. Jan.-Feb. 1956.
–Account of the procurement of "Eugenie" in the Palau Islands for the Steinhart Aquarium, San Francisco. Mentions that the dugong ate clams and sea cucumbers (22-24, 27). A postscript by the editor (Don Greame Kelley) describes its subsequent death from pneumonia and gangrene on Dec. 27, 1955 (27).

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Behavior, Ingestive
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Epimeletic; Behavior, Et-epimeletic; Food; Mastication; Milk)
x  1956Harry, R.R. (DD; Palau; use of tusks; 22.)
Captivity, Sirenians in
(SEE ALSO: Hunting and Capture; Weed Control)
x *1956Harry, R.R. (DD from Palau; San Francisco; 21-27.)
Dugong dugon (Müller, 1776) Palmer, 1895
x  1956Harry, R.R. (Palau; in capt., San Francisco; 21-27.)
Food
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Ingestive; Captivity, Sirenians in; Digestive System; Food Plants; Weed Control) (NOTE: Plants reported as part of the captive but not the natural diet of sirs. will not necessarily be found under Food Plants. Papers referring to them are, however, indexed here.)
x  1956Harry, R.R. (DD; Palau; clams & sea cucumbers; 22-24, 27.)
Palau
x  1956Harry, R.R. (DD; 21-27.)
Parasitology
(SEE ALSO: Bacteriology; Community Ecology; Parasites)
x  1956Harry, R.R. (DD; algae; 26.)
Pathology
(SEE ALSO: Bacteriology; Biochemistry; Natural Death or Injury; Parasites; Parasitology; Pollution, Effects of; Temperature, Effects of; Teratology; Virology)
x  1956Harry, R.R. (DD; wounds, pneumonia; 27.)
Religious, Superstitious, or Ornamental Use or Observance
(SEE ALSO: Economic Use; Mermaid Legend)
x  1956Harry, R.R. (DD; East Indies; tears; m27.)
Sense Organs
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Investigative, and Sense Perception; Brain and Nervous System; Digestive System; Skeleton; Sound Production)
x  1956Harry, R.R. (dugong tears; 27.)
Vernacular Names
x  1956Harry, R.R. (DD; Malay; m21.)