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x Hamilton, William John, Jr.
  1941
Notes on some mammals of Lee County, Florida.
Amer. Midland Naturalist 25(3): 686-691. 1 fig. May 1941.
–Reports an additional manatee that was killed in the 1940 freeze described by Cahn (1940); discusses tooth replacement and possible seasonal migrations and breeding. Another "natural" death is reported but not further elaborated on (687, 690-691). Hamilton's obituary in Jour. Mamm. 73(3): 693-706, Aug. 21, 1992, adds that the manatee skull collected by his wife and illustrated here was removed from the decomposing carcass "while bobbing around in a small boat in the middle of the Caloosahatchee River" (695).

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Birth and Breeding
(SEE ALSO: Age Determination; Behavior, Sexual; Population Biology; Urogenital System)
x  1941Hamilton, W.J., Jr. (TM; Florida; ?seasonal breeding; 691.)
Florida
x  1941Hamilton, W.J., Jr. (TML; Lee Co.; 687, 690-691.)
Migration and Movements
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Aggregative; Behavior, Shelter-seeking; Locomotion; Temperature, Effects of)
x  1941Hamilton, W.J., Jr. (TML; Florida; ?seasonal movements; 691.)
Temperature, Effects of
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Shelter-seeking or Escape; Migration & Movements; Natural Death or Injury; Pollution, Effects of; Thermoregulation)
x  1941Hamilton, W.J., Jr. (TML; Florida; winter mortality; 690-691.)
Tooth Replacement
x  1941Hamilton, W.J., Jr. (TML; Florida; 691.)
Trichechus latirostris (Harlan, 1824) True, 1884
x  1941Hamilton, W.J., Jr. (Florida; winter mortality; migration; tooth replacement; 687, 690-691.)