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x Powell, James Arthur, Jr.; Belitsky, David W.; Rathbun, Galen B.
  1981
Status of the West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus) in Puerto Rico.
Jour. Mamm. 62(3): 642-646. 2 tabs. 1 fig. Aug. 20, 1981.
–Reports that aerial surveys in Puerto Rico in 1976-79 counted up to 51 manatees; gives notes on their occurrence in and drinking of fresh water, their preference for calm waters, and their mortality in fishing nets. The manatee population is said to be "small and widely distributed".

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Aerial Surveys of Distribution
x  1981Powell & Waldron (TM; upper St. Johns R., Florida; 42, 50.)
x  1981Powell et al. (TM; Puerto Rico; 642-646.)
x  1981Powell, J.A., Jr. (TM; Crystal R., Florida; 33-35.)
Behavior, Ingestive
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Epimeletic; Behavior, Et-epimeletic; Food; Mastication; Milk)
x  1981Powell & Waldron (TM; St. Johns R., Florida; eating Eichhornia & Vallisneria; 49-50.)
Behavior, Shelter-seeking or Escape
(SEE ALSO: Hunting and Capture; Migration and Movements; Natural Death or Injury; Temperature, Effects of)
x  1981Powell & Waldron (TM; use of Blue Spring, Florida; 41-46.)
x  1981Powell et al. (TM; Puerto Rico; favoring calm waters; 644.)
x *1981Powell, J.A., Jr. (TM; use of Crystal R., Florida; 34-37.)
Birth and Breeding
(SEE ALSO: Age Determination; Behavior, Sexual; Population Biology; Urogenital System)
x  1981Powell & Waldron (TM; Blue Spring, Florida; calving intervals; 48-49.)
x  1981Powell, J.A., Jr. (TM; Crystal R., Florida; calving intervals; 38-39.)
Florida
x  1981Powell & Waldron (TML; use of Blue Spring & St. Johns R.; 41-51.)
x  1981Powell, J.A., Jr. (TML; use of Crystal R.; 33-40.)
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  1981Powell & Waldron (TML; Blue Spring, Florida, 49-50; detritus, wood, palmetto leaf, etc.; 49.)
Food Plants: Alternanthera philoxeroides
x  1981Powell & Waldron (St. Johns R., Florida; 50.)
Food Plants: Eichhornia crassipes
x  1981Powell & Waldron (St. Johns R., Florida; 49-50.)
Food Plants: Panicum purpurascens
x  1981Powell & Waldron (St. Johns R., Florida; 50.)
Food Plants: Phragmites communis
x  1981Powell & Waldron (St. Johns R., Florida; 50.)
Food Plants: Sabal palmetto
x  1981Powell & Waldron (Blue Spring, Florida; 49.)
Food Plants: Sambucus canadensis
x  1981Powell & Waldron (St. Johns R., Florida; 50.)
Food Plants: Vallisneria americana
x  1981Powell & Waldron (Blue Spring, Florida; 49-50.)
Hunting and Capture
(SEE ALSO: Accidental Death or Injury; Archeological Sites, Sirenians at; Captivity, Sirenians in; Conservation; Economic Use; Natural Enemies; Weed Control)
x  1981Powell et al. (TMM; Puerto Rico; nets; 645.)
Natural Death or Injury
(SEE ALSO: Captivity, Sirenians in; Natural Enemies; Pathology; Temperature, Effects of)
x  1981Powell et al. (TMM; Puerto Rico; calf stranded; 645.)
Puerto Rico
x *1981Powell et al. (TMM; status; 642-646.)
Salinity Tolerance
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Ingestive)
x  1981Powell et al. (TMM; Puerto Rico; occurrence in & drinking of fresh water; 642, 644.)
Temperature, Effects of
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Shelter-seeking or Escape; Migration & Movements; Natural Death or Injury; Pollution, Effects of; Thermoregulation)
x  1981Powell & Waldron (TML; Blue Spring, Florida; 41-46.)
Trichechus manatus Linnaeus, 1758
x  1981Powell & Waldron (use of Blue Spring, Florida; 41-51.)
x  1981Powell et al. (Puerto Rico; status & distr.; 642-646.)
x  1981Powell, J.A., Jr. (use of Crystal R., Florida; 33-40.)