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x Preen, Anthony R.
  1989b
Observations of mating behavior in dugongs (Dugong dugon).
Mar. Mamm. Sci. 5(4): 382-387. 1 fig. Oct. 1989.
–Describes behaviors related to mating ("splashing", "following", "fighting", and "mounting") observed in dugong herds in Moreton Bay, Queensland, and compares these observations with other published accounts of dugong and manatee sexual behavior. Concludes that dugongs compete more violently for estrous females than do manatees.

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Accidental Death or Injury
(SEE ALSO: Conservation; Hunting and Capture; Natural Death or Injury)
x *1989aPreen, A. (DD; Arabian region; oil spill, 6, 51, 53, 69, 83, 90, 119; ?red tide, 43, 55; gill nets, 47-53, 96-100, 127-130, 134; trawlers, 100, 128-129.)
Aerial Surveys of Distribution
x  1989Preen et al. (DD; Arabian region; techniques; 41-42.)
x *1989aPreen, A. (DD; Arabian region; 18-24, 27-32, 36-47, 57-66, 75-81, 94-96, 100-112, 115-119, 156-162, 176-200.)
Age Determination
(SEE ALSO: Birth and Breeding; Embryology & Ontogeny; Growth Rates; Population Biology)
x  1989aPreen, A. (DD; Arabian region; growth layers in tusks; 54, 86.)
Asia
(SEE ALSO: Arctic Region; Bering Sea; China; East Indies; Indian Ocean; India; Japan; Red Sea; Russia; Sakhalin; Sri Lanka; Taiwan)
x *1989Preen et al. (DD; Arabian region; conservation; 1-43.)
x *1989aPreen, A. (DD; Arabian region; status & conservation; 1-200.)
Australia
x  1989bPreen, A. (DD; Moreton Bay, Queensland; mating behavior; 382-387.)
Behavior, Aggregative
(SEE ALSO: Aerial Surveys of Distribution)
x *1989aPreen, A. (DD; Arabian region; group sizes; 42-46, 50-51, 58-60, 63, 75-78, 81, 84-86, 94-97, 101-102, 110-112, 181-183, 193-194, 200.)
x  1989bPreen, A. (DD; Queensland; herd sizes; 383.)
Behavior, Agonistic and Territorial
x *1989bPreen, A. (DD; Queensland; males fighting in mating herds; 384-386.)
Behavior, Ingestive
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Epimeletic; Behavior, Et-epimeletic; Food; Mastication; Milk)
x  1989aPreen, A. (DD; Arabian region; rhizivory ?limited to soft sediments; 120-121.)
Behavior, Sexual
(SEE ALSO: Birth and Breeding)
x *1989bPreen, A. (DD; Queensland; mating; 382-387.)
Birth and Breeding
(SEE ALSO: Age Determination; Behavior, Sexual; Population Biology; Urogenital System)
x  1989aPreen, A. (DD; Arabian region; seasonality & calving areas; 53-54, 119.)
Conservation
(SEE ALSO: Accidental Death or Injury; Economic Uses; Hunting and Capture; Weed Control)
x *1989Preen et al. (DD; Arabian region; 1-43.)
x *1989aPreen, A. (DD; Arabian region; 1-200.)
Dugong dugon (Müller, 1776) Palmer, 1895
x *1989Preen et al. (Arabian region; conservation; 1-43.)
x *1989aPreen, A. (Arabian region; status & conservation; 1-200.)
x  1989bPreen, A. (Queensland; mating behavior; 382-387.)
Economic Uses
(SEE ALSO: Archeological Sites, Sirenia at; Hunting and Capture; Medicinal Applications; Religious, Superstitious, or Ornamental Use or Observance; Weed Control)
x *1989aPreen, A. (DD; Arabian region; meat, 47-52, 66, 96-100, 114-115; oil, hide, 51, 97, 99, 114; tusks, 51; marrow, 114.)
Hunting and Capture
(SEE ALSO: Accidental Death or Injury; Archeological Sites, Sirenians at; Captivity, Sirenians in; Conservation; Economic Use; Natural Enemies; Weed Control)
x  1989aPreen, A. (DD; Arabian region; catching by hand & killing with clubs, 47, 50, 114; drowning with cement blocks, 50; capture for tagging, 56, 87-88; metal hooks & harpoons, 96-97, 114; nets, 99, 114.)
Individual Variation
(SEE ALSO: Skeleton)
x  1989aPreen, A. (DD; skulls; 54-55, 70-71.)
Medicinal Applications
(SEE ALSO: Economic Use)
x  1989aPreen, A. (DD; Arabian region; oil, bones, meat, blood; 97-98, 114-115.)
Pollution, Effects of
(SEE ALSO: Temperature, Effects of)
x *1989Preen et al. (DD; Arabian region; recommendations regarding oil pollution; 1-13, 17-19, 25-27.)
x *1989aPreen, A. (DD; Arabian region; oil, 6, 51, 53, 69, 83, 90, 119, 122-125; other pollutants, 125-126.)
Population Biology
(SEE ALSO: Aerial Surveys of Distribution; Age Determination; Birth and Breeding)
x  1989aPreen, A. (DD; Arabian region; estimated sustainable mortality; 129-130, 134.)
Red Sea
(SEE ALSO: Africa; Asia)
x *1989Preen et al. (DD; conservation; 1-15, 20, 22.)
x *1989aPreen, A. (DD; status & conservation; 1-13, 17-18, 30-31, 36-40, 57, 59-60, 94-115, 117-118, 121-122, 128-131, 133-134, 136-137, 176, 195-200.)
Religious, Superstitious, or Ornamental Use or Observance
(SEE ALSO: Economic Use; Mermaid Legend)
x  1989aPreen, A. (DD; Arabian region; tusks used in sword handles, 51, 114; meat ?prohibited to Shia Muslims, 52; genitals of captured dugongs kept covered, 97, 99; ritual slaughter & acceptability to Muslims as food, 99, 115.)
Salinity Tolerance
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Ingestive)
x  1989aPreen, A. (DD; Arabian region; 118, 121, 127.)
Skeleton
(SEE ALSO: Age Determination; Embryology and Ontogeny; Histology; Myology; Sense Organs; Tooth Replacement; and under species)
x  1989aPreen, A. (DD; Arabian Gulf; skull measurements; 54, 70-71, 172-174.)
Tagging Methods and Recognition
x  1989Preen et al. (DD; Arabian region; radiotagging; 25-26, 56.)
Temperature, Effects of
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Shelter-seeking or Escape; Migration & Movements; Natural Death or Injury; Pollution, Effects of; Thermoregulation)
x  1989aPreen, A. (DD; Arabian region; 119-121.)
Trichechus manatus Linnaeus, 1758
x  1989bPreen, A. (sexual behavior, comp. w/ DD; 382, 386.)
Vernacular Names
x  1989aPreen, A. (DD; Arabian region; al jild, taweelah, bugarah al bahr, arus al bahr; 97, 114.)