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x Reynolds, John E., III
  1979a
The semisocial manatee.
Nat. Hist. (New York) 88(2): 44-53. 10 figs. + cover photo. Feb. 1979.
–Pop. acc. of T. manatus at Blue Lagoon, Miami, Florida, emphasizing herd structure, "estrous herds", cow-calf interactions, "body surfing", "follow-the-leader" behavior, social communication, and activity patterns. Concludes that manatees are "moderately social."

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Accidental Death or Injury
(SEE ALSO: Conservation; Hunting and Capture; Natural Death or Injury)
x *1979Odell & Reynolds (TM; southern Florida; flood-control dams, etc.; 572-577.)
Behavior (General and Miscellaneous)
(SEE ALSO: Birth and Breeding; Captivity, Sirenians in; Locomotion; Migration and Movements; Sound Production; Respiration and Diving; and under species)
x  1979aReynolds, J.E., III (TM; Florida; 47-53; "body-surfing" & "follow-the-leader", 51; activity patterns, 52.)
Behavior, Aggregative
(SEE ALSO: Aerial Surveys of Distribution)
x  1979aReynolds, J.E., III (TM; Florida; herd structure; 47-52.)
Behavior, Et-epimeletic
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Ingestive)
x  1979Odell & Reynolds (TM; cow & calf, separated by dam, 575-576.)
Behavior, Investigative, and Sense Perception
(SEE ALSO: Sense Organs; Sound Production)
x  1979aReynolds, J.E., III (TM; Florida; mechanoreception & body hairs; 52.)
Behavior, Sexual
(SEE ALSO: Birth and Breeding)
x  1979aReynolds, J.E., III (TM; Florida; estrous herds; 47, 50.)
Behavior, Shelter-seeking or Escape
(SEE ALSO: Hunting and Capture; Migration and Movements; Natural Death or Injury; Temperature, Effects of)
x  1979aReynolds, J.E., III (TM; Florida; cows protecting calves; 50-51.)
Florida
x  1979Odell & Reynolds (TML; southern Florida; mortality; 572-577.)
x  1979aReynolds, J.E., III (TML; behavior; pop. acc.; 44-53.)
Trichechus manatus Linnaeus, 1758
x  1979Odell & Reynolds (southern Florida; mortality; 572-577.)
x  1979aReynolds, J.E., III (Florida; behavior; pop. acc.; 44-53.)