Bibliography and Index of the Sirenia and Desmostylia 
Bibliography Record
| x | Loyer, Bertrand | ||
| 1993 | How now, sea cow? BBC Wildlife 11(10): 54-55. 2 figs. Oct. 1993. –Describes the unusual behavior of a lone dugong encountered by a film crew in Vanuatu, including poking divers with its tusks and "trying to drown" turtles. Notes a movement of the top of the nasal passages associated with the animal's production of "chirping sounds". | ||
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Behavior (General and Miscellaneous)
(SEE ALSO: Birth and Breeding; Captivity, Sirenians in; Locomotion; Migration and Movements; Sound Production; Respiration and Diving; and under species)
(SEE ALSO: Birth and Breeding; Captivity, Sirenians in; Locomotion; Migration and Movements; Sound Production; Respiration and Diving; and under species)
| x | 1993 | Loyer, B. (DD; Vanuatu; observations on lone individual; 54-55.) |
Behavior, Investigative, and Sense Perception
(SEE ALSO: Sense Organs; Sound Production)
(SEE ALSO: Sense Organs; Sound Production)
| x | 1993 | Loyer, B. (DD; Vanuatu; investigating divers; "excited" by the color red; 54-55.) |
Dugong dugon (Müller, 1776) Palmer, 1895
| x | 1993 | Loyer, B. (Vanuatu; behavior of lone individual; 54-55.) |
Natural Enemies
(SEE ALSO: Natural Death or Injury)
(SEE ALSO: Natural Death or Injury)
| x | 1993 | Loyer, B. (DD; Vanuatu; wounds from sharks; attempts to ?drown turtles; 55.) |
Pacific Ocean
(SEE ALSO: East Indies; Palau; circumpacific regions)
(SEE ALSO: East Indies; Palau; circumpacific regions)
| x | 1993 | Loyer, B. (DD; Vanuatu; 54-55.) |
Sound Production
| x | 1993 | Loyer, B. (DD; Vanuatu; "chirps" and associated nasal movements; 55.) |