Bibliography and Index of the Sirenia and Desmostylia 
Bibliography Record
| x | Bengtson, John L.; Fitzgerald, Shannon M. | ||
| 1985 | Potential role of vocalizations in West Indian manatees. Jour. Mamm. 66(4): 816-819. 2 figs. Nov. 29, 1985. –Reports correlations between number of calls and various behaviors of manatees in Blue Spring and the St. Johns River, Florida. Concludes that vocalizations are mainly social and communicative in function, not navigational. Notes the possible use of vocalizations for alarm, greeting, and synchronizing of breathing, and estimates the distances at which manatees can hear various sounds. | ||
Related Index Records
7 related index terms
Behavior, Aggregative
(SEE ALSO: Aerial Surveys of Distribution)
(SEE ALSO: Aerial Surveys of Distribution)
| x | 1985 | Bengtson & Fitzgerald (TM; Florida; keeping group together or greeting with vocalizations; 817.) |
Behavior, Investigative, and Sense Perception
(SEE ALSO: Sense Organs; Sound Production)
(SEE ALSO: Sense Organs; Sound Production)
| x | 1985 | Bengtson & Fitzgerald (TM; Florida; hearing sensitivity; 817-818.) |
Behavior, Shelter-seeking or Escape
(SEE ALSO: Hunting and Capture; Migration and Movements; Natural Death or Injury; Temperature, Effects of)
(SEE ALSO: Hunting and Capture; Migration and Movements; Natural Death or Injury; Temperature, Effects of)
| x | 1985 | Bengtson & Fitzgerald (TM; Florida; ?alarm vocalizations; 817.) |
Florida
| x | 1985 | Bengtson & Fitzgerald (TML; Blue Spring & St. Johns R.; vocalizations; 816-819.) |
Respiration and Diving
(SEE ALSO: Locomotion)
(SEE ALSO: Locomotion)
| x | 1985 | Bengtson & Fitzgerald (TML; Florida; vocalizations & synchronous respiration; 817.) |
Sound Production
| x | * | 1985 | Bengtson & Fitzgerald (TML; Florida; social functions; 816-819.) |
Trichechus manatus Linnaeus, 1758
| x | 1985 | Bengtson & Fitzgerald (Florida; vocalizations & behavior; 816-819.) |