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x Marshall, Christopher D.; Huth, Glenn D.; Edmonds, Virginia M.; Halin, Deborah L. ("D. M. Halin"); Reep, Roger Lyons
  1998
Prehensile use of perioral bristles during feeding and associated behaviors of the Florida manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris).
Mar. Mamm. Sci. 14(2): 274-289. 4 figs. Mar. 31, 1998.
–Reports observations of captive and wild manatees feeding on 6 species of aquatic plants, attempting to manipulate inanimate objects, and in social interactions. Describes details of both prehensile and tactile lip and vibrissal movements. See also Reep et al. (1998) and Marshall, Clark & Reep (1998).

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Anatomy
(SEE ALSO: Brain and Nervous System; Circulatory System; Digestive System; Embryology; Endocrinology; Growth Rates; Histology; Myology; Pathology; Respiratory System; Skeleton; Urogenital System; and under species)
x *1998Marshall, Clark, & Reep (TML; facial anatomy & behavior; 290-303.)
x *1998Reep et al. (TML; facial anatomy & bristles; 258-272.)
Behavior, Ingestive
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Epimeletic; Behavior, Et-epimeletic; Food; Mastication; Milk)
x *1998Marshall et al. (TML; use of perioral bristles; 274-289.)
x *1998Marshall, Clark, & Reep (TML; use of facial muscles & bristles; 298-302.)
Behavior, Investigative, and Sense Perception
(SEE ALSO: Sense Organs; Sound Production)
x *1998Marshall et al. (TML; facial bristles & hairs; 281-287.)
x  1998Reep et al. (TML; facial bristles & hairs; 271.)
Brain and Nervous System
(SEE ALSO: Sense Organs)
x  1998Reep et al. (TML; innervation of facial bristles; 261-262, 267-271.)
Captivity, Sirenians in
(SEE ALSO: Hunting and Capture; Weed Control)
x  1998Marshall et al. (TML; Florida; feeding experiments; 276-284.)
Food Plants: Eichhornia crassipes
x  1998Marshall et al. (TML; in capt.; feeding experiments; 276, 281.)
Food Plants: Hydrilla verticillata
x  1998Marshall et al. (TML; in capt.; feeding experiments; m276.)
Food Plants: Myriophyllum spicatum
x  1998Marshall et al. (TML; in capt.; feeding experiments; m276.)
Food Plants: Syringodium filiforme
x  1998Marshall et al. (TML; in capt.; feeding experiments; m276.)
Food Plants: Thalassia testudinum
x  1998Marshall et al. (TML; in capt.; feeding experiments; m276.)
Food Plants: Vallisneria americana
x  1998Marshall et al. (TML; in capt.; feeding experiments; m276.)
Integument
x  1998Marshall, Clark, & Reep (TML; facial bristles & skin; 296-298.)
x *1998Reep et al. (TML; facial bristles & hairs; 257-273.)
Myology
x *1998Marshall, Clark, & Reep (TML; facial muscles & "muscular hydrostat" of snout; 290-303.)
x  1998Reep et al. (TML; innervation of facial muscles; 267-268, 270.)
Sense Organs
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Investigative, and Sense Perception; Brain and Nervous System; Digestive System; Skeleton; Sound Production)
x  1998Marshall et al. (TML; facial bristles & hairs; 274-289.)
x *1998Reep et al. (TML; facial bristles & hairs; 257-273.)
Trichechus manatus latirostris (Harlan, 1824) Hatt, 1934
x  1998Marshall et al. (perioral bristles & feeding; 274-289.)
x  1998Marshall, Clark, & Reep (facial muscles & bristle use; 290-303.)
x  1998Reep et al. (facial bristles & hairs; 257-273.)