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x Büttikofer, Johann
  1890
Reisebilder aus Liberia. Resultate geographischer, naturwissenschaftlicher und ethnographischer Untersuchungen während der Jahre 1879-1882 und 1886-1887. II. Band. Die Bewohner Liberia's. -- Thierwelt.
Leiden, E. J. Brill (2 vols.): Vol. 2: 1-510. Illus.
–Reports that Manatus senegalensis occurs in the lower reaches of all major Liberian rivers; mentions several specific localities, and briefly describes one 2.64-meter specimen. Notes that manatees are shot, speared, netted, and caught by fencing off streams at high water, and that in one place schools of them posed a danger to passing canoes (2: 392-393). The single drawing shows a manatee feeding partly out of the water.

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Africa
(SEE ALSO: Indian Ocean; Egypt; Madagascar; Red Sea)
x  1890Büttikofer, J. (TS; Liberia; 2: 392-393.)
Behavior, Aggregative
(SEE ALSO: Aerial Surveys of Distribution)
x  1890Büttikofer, J. (TS; Liberia; schools of manatees dangerous to canoes; 2: 392.)
Hunting and Capture
(SEE ALSO: Accidental Death or Injury; Archeological Sites, Sirenians at; Captivity, Sirenians in; Conservation; Economic Use; Natural Enemies; Weed Control)
x  1890Büttikofer, J. (TS; Liberia; guns, harpoons, nets, fences; 2: 392-393.)
Manatus senegalensis Desmarest, 1817
x  1890Büttikofer, J. (Liberia; distr. & capture; 2: 392-393.)