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x Pinto da Silveira, Estanislau Kostka
  1975
The management of Caribbean and Amazonian manatees Trichechus m. manatus and T. inunguis in captivity.
Internatl. Zoo Yearbook 15: 223-226.
–Portuguese ?transl.: Pinto da Silveira (1988). Gives captive histories, including weights, lengths, and diets, of various manatees kept in Brazil at the Recife, Rio de Janeiro, and Belém zoos. The section on "Natural History" includes descriptions of mating in T. inunguis based on communications from Nunes Pereira, and a variety of statements on the life history of both species that are unsupported by data.

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Behavior, Sexual
(SEE ALSO: Birth and Breeding)
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. (TI; mating herds; 225-226.)
Behavior, Shelter-seeking or Escape
(SEE ALSO: Hunting and Capture; Migration and Movements; Natural Death or Injury; Temperature, Effects of)
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. (TMM, avoiding shark attack; TI, deserting young when attacked; 226.)
Birth and Breeding
(SEE ALSO: Age Determination; Behavior, Sexual; Population Biology; Urogenital System)
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. (TMM, TI; 225-226.)
Brazil
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. (TMM, TI; in capt.; 223-226.)
Captivity, Sirenians in
(SEE ALSO: Hunting and Capture; Weed Control)
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. (TMM, TI; Brazil; 223-226.)
Community Ecology
(SEE ALSO: Food; Food Plants; Natural Enemies; Paleoecology; Parasites; Parasitology)
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. (TI; feces eaten by fish; 226.)
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  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. (TMM, TI; in capt., Brazil; diets; 224-225.)
Food Plants: Andropogon nardus
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. (Brazil; in capt.; 224-225.)
Food Plants: Annona glabra
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. ("Anona"; Brazil; in capt.; 225.)
Food Plants: Annona reticulata
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. ("Anona"; Brazil; in capt.; 225.)
Food Plants: Artocarpus altilis
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. (Brazil; in capt.; 225.)
Food Plants: Artocarpus integrifolia
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. (Brazil; in capt.; 225.)
Food Plants: Brachiaria plantaginea
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. (Brazil; in capt.; 225.)
Food Plants: Cabomba aquatica
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. (Brazil; 224-225.)
Food Plants: Cabomba australis
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. (Brazil; in capt.; 224.)
Food Plants: Centrosema brasilianum
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. (Brazil; 225.)
Food Plants: Cyperus radiatus
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. (Brazil; 225.)
Food Plants: Echinochloa polystachya
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. (Brazil; 224-225.)
Food Plants: Eleocharis acicularis
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. (Brazil; in capt.; 224.)
Food Plants: Elodea densa
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. (Brazil; in capt.; 224.)
Food Plants: Hibiscus tiliaceus
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. (Brazil; TMM, in capt.; flowers; 224.)
Food Plants: Ipomoea batatas
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. (Brazil; 225.)
Food Plants: Ipomoea setifera
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. (Brazil; 225.)
Food Plants: Kyllingia brevifolia
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. (Brazil; in capt.; 225.)
Food Plants: Lactuca sativa
(lettuce; Asteraceae) (SEE ALSO under Food)
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. (Brazil; in capt.; 224.)
Food Plants: Leersia hexandra
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. (Brazil; not part of manatees' natural diet; 225.)
Food Plants: Luziola spruceana
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. (Brazil; 225.)
Food Plants: Mauritia flexuosa
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. (Brazil; 225.)
Food Plants: Medicago sativa
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. (Brazil; in capt.; 224-225.)
Food Plants: Myriophyllum
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. ("M. brasiliense and/or M. elatinoides"; Brazil; in capt.; 224.)
Food Plants: Myriophyllum brasiliense
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. ("M. brasiliense and/or M. elatinoides"; Brazil; in capt.; 224.)
Food Plants: Oryza latifolia
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. (Brazil; 225.)
Food Plants: Panicum amplexicaule
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. (Brazil; 225.)
Food Plants: Panicum apressum
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. (Brazil; 225.)
Food Plants: Panicum gladiatum
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. (Brazil; in capt.; 224-225.)
Food Plants: Panicum laxum
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. (Brazil; 225.)
Food Plants: Panicum spectabile
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. (Brazil; 224-225.)
Food Plants: Panicum zizanioides
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. (Brazil; 224-225.)
Food Plants: Paspalum acuminatum
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. (Brazil; in capt.; 225.)
Food Plants: Paspalum pusillum
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. (Brazil; 224-225.)
Food Plants: Paspalum repens
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. (Brazil; in capt.; 224.)
Food Plants: Phalaris aquatica
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. (Brazil; in capt.; 225.)
Food Plants: Pistia stratiotes
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. (Brazil; 224-225.)
Food Plants: Pontederia rotundifolia
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. (Brazil; 225.)
Food Plants: Ruppia maritima
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. (Brazil; 224-225.)
Food Plants: Sagittaria graminea
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. (Brazil; in capt.; 224.)
Food Plants: Sagittaria guyanensis
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. (Brazil; in capt.; 224.)
Food Plants: Sagittaria latifolia
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. (Brazil; in capt.; 224.)
Food Plants: Salvinia oblongifolia
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. (Brazil; in capt.; 224.)
Food Plants: Salvinia rotundifolia
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. (Brazil; in capt.; 224.)
Food Plants: Scleria cyperina
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. (Brazil; 225.)
Food Plants: Scleria paludosa
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. (Brazil; 225.)
Food Plants: Scleria pterota
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. (Brazil; 225.)
Food Plants: Simaba guianensis
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. (Brazil; 225.)
Food Plants: Theobroma cacao
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. (Brazil; in capt.; 225.)
Food Plants: Theobroma grandiflorum
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. (Brazil; in capt.; 225.)
Food Plants: Tradescantia diuretica
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. (Brazil; in capt.; 224-225.)
Food Plants: Typha domingensis
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. (Brazil; 224.)
Food Plants: Vallisneria neotropicalis
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. (Brazil; in capt.; 224.)
Food Plants: Vigna luteola
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. (Brazil; 225.)
Natural Death or Injury
(SEE ALSO: Captivity, Sirenians in; Natural Enemies; Pathology; Temperature, Effects of)
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. (TI; females killed by mating herds; 225.)
Natural Enemies
(SEE ALSO: Natural Death or Injury)
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. (TMM, sharks; TI, jaguars, caimans, anacondas; 226.)
Pathology
(SEE ALSO: Bacteriology; Biochemistry; Natural Death or Injury; Parasites; Parasitology; Pollution, Effects of; Temperature, Effects of; Teratology; Virology)
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. (TMM; in capt., Brazil; deaths attributed to chlorinated water; 224.)
Respiration and Diving
(SEE ALSO: Locomotion)
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. (TMM; difficulty breathing out of water due to body weight; 225.)
Trichechus inunguis (Natterer in von Pelzeln, 1883) Thomas and Lydekker, 1897
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. (in capt., Brazil; 223-226.)
Trichechus manatus manatus Linnaeus, 1758, Hatt, 1934
x  1975Pinto da Silveira, E.K. (in capt., Brazil; 223-226.)