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x Heinsohn, George Edwin; Birch, W. R.
  1972
Foods and feeding habits of the dugong Dugong dugong (Erxleben) in northern Queensland, Australia.
Mammalia 36(3): 414-422. 1 fig. Sept. 1972.
–Describes stomach contents (seagrasses) of dugongs caught in shark nets, and notes the food preferences indicated thereby.

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Accidental Death or Injury
(SEE ALSO: Conservation; Hunting and Capture; Natural Death or Injury)
x  1972Heinsohn & Birch (DD; Australia; nets; 415-417.)
x *1972Heinsohn, G.E. (DD; Australia; nets; 205-208.)
Age Determination
(SEE ALSO: Birth and Breeding; Embryology & Ontogeny; Growth Rates; Population Biology)
x  1972Heinsohn, G.E. (DD; body length; 208-211.)
Australia
x  1972Heinsohn & Birch (DD; food; 414-422.)
x *1972Heinsohn, G.E. (DD; natural history; 205-212.)
Behavior, Aggregative
(SEE ALSO: Aerial Surveys of Distribution)
x  1972Heinsohn, G.E. (DD; Australia; 208.)
Behavior, Agonistic and Territorial
x  1972Heinsohn, G.E. (DD; Australia; possible territoriality; 211.)
Behavior, Ingestive
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Epimeletic; Behavior, Et-epimeletic; Food; Mastication; Milk)
x  1972Heinsohn, G.E. (DD; Australia; calves grazing; 210.)
Behavior, Shelter-seeking or Escape
(SEE ALSO: Hunting and Capture; Migration and Movements; Natural Death or Injury; Temperature, Effects of)
x  1972Heinsohn, G.E. (DD; Australia; favoring protected waters; 207, 211.)
Birth and Breeding
(SEE ALSO: Age Determination; Behavior, Sexual; Population Biology; Urogenital System)
x *1972Heinsohn, G.E. (DD; Queensland; seasonality of birth; size at maturity; 208-211.)
Conservation
(SEE ALSO: Accidental Death or Injury; Economic Uses; Hunting and Capture; Weed Control)
x *1972Heinsohn, G.E. (DD; Queensland; 205, 212.)
Dugong dugon (Müller, 1776) Palmer, 1895
x *1972Heinsohn & Birch ("D. dugong"; Australia; food; 414-422.)
x *1972Heinsohn, G.E. ("D. dugong"; Australia; natural history; 205-212.)
Food Plants: Cymodocea
x *1972Heinsohn & Birch (Queensland; 416-418, 421-422.)
x  1972Heinsohn, G.E. (Queensland; 212.)
Food Plants: Diplanthera
x *1972Heinsohn & Birch (Queensland; 416-418, 421-422.)
x  1972Heinsohn, G.E. (Queensland; 212.)
Food Plants: Diplanthera pinifolia
x *1972Heinsohn & Birch (Queensland; 418.)
Food Plants: Diplanthera uninervis
x *1972Heinsohn & Birch (Queensland; 418.)
Food Plants: Enhalus acoroides
x *1972Heinsohn & Birch (Queensland; not eaten; 419-421.)
Food Plants: Halophila
x *1972Heinsohn & Birch (Queensland; 416-419, 422.)
Food Plants: Halophila decipiens
x  1972Heinsohn & Birch (Queensland; 416-419.)
Food Plants: Halophila ovalis
x  1972Heinsohn & Birch (Queensland; 416-418.)
Food Plants: Halophila spinulosa
x  1972Heinsohn & Birch (Queensland; 416-417, 419.)
Food Plants: Syringodium isoetifolium
x *1972Heinsohn & Birch (Queensland; not eaten; 419.)
Food Plants: Thalassia
x *1972Heinsohn & Birch (Queensland; not eaten; 418, 422.)
Food Plants: Zostera capricornis
x  1972Heinsohn & Birch ("Z. capricorni"; Queensland; 416-417, 419, 422.)
Growth Rates
x  1972Heinsohn, G.E. (DD; Queensland; 208-211.)
Hunting and Capture
(SEE ALSO: Accidental Death or Injury; Archeological Sites, Sirenians at; Captivity, Sirenians in; Conservation; Economic Use; Natural Enemies; Weed Control)
x  1972Heinsohn & Birch (DD; Queensland; shark nets; 415-417.)
x *1972Heinsohn, G.E. (DD; Queensland; shark nets; 205-208.)
Migration and Movements
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Aggregative; Behavior, Shelter-seeking; Locomotion; Temperature, Effects of)
x  1972Heinsohn, G.E. (DD; Australia; no seasonal patterns, 207; individual movements, 211.)
Milk
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Epimeletic; Behavior, Ingestive)
x  1972Heinsohn, G.E. (DD; milk found in calf's stomach; 210.)