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x Moore, Joseph Curtis
  1951b
The status of the manatee in the Everglades National Park, with notes on its natural history.
Jour. Mamm. 32(1): 22-36. 2 tabs. 1 fig. Feb. 15, 1951.
–Includes notes on habitat, reproduction, respiration, behavior, body size and measurements, intelligence, food, and effects of cold. Gives further details of the captive birth recorded by Barbour, 1937 (26).

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Accidental Death or Injury
(SEE ALSO: Conservation; Hunting and Capture; Natural Death or Injury)
x  1951aMoore, J.C. (TML; Florida; blasting; 3-4.)
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  1951bMoore, J.C. (TM; measurements; 31-32.)
Behavior (General and Miscellaneous)
(SEE ALSO: Birth and Breeding; Captivity, Sirenians in; Locomotion; Migration and Movements; Sound Production; Respiration and Diving; and under species)
x  1951bMoore, J.C. (TM; Florida; intelligence & learning, 31-32; "kissing" & nuzzling, 32-33.)
Behavior, Aggregative
(SEE ALSO: Aerial Surveys of Distribution)
x  1951bMoore, J.C. (TM; Everglades, Florida; 23-25.)
Behavior, Epimeletic
x  1951bMoore, J.C. (TM; teaching young to breathe, nursing; 27.)
Behavior, Investigative, and Sense Perception
(SEE ALSO: Sense Organs; Sound Production)
x  1951bMoore, J.C. (TM; Florida; raising eyes above surface; 27-28.)
Birth and Breeding
(SEE ALSO: Age Determination; Behavior, Sexual; Population Biology; Urogenital System)
x  1951bMoore, J.C. (TM; births in capt., 26-27; in wild, 27-28.)
Captivity, Sirenians in
(SEE ALSO: Hunting and Capture; Weed Control)
x  1951aMoore, J.C. (TML; Bradenton, Florida; 14.)
x  1951bMoore, J.C. (TML; Florida; kept in pens for food, 23; births, 26-28; behavior, 29-32; food, 33-34.)
Florida
x *1951aMoore, J.C. (TML; range; 1-19.)
x *1951bMoore, J.C. (TML; Everglades; 22-36.)
Food
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Ingestive; Captivity, Sirenians in; Digestive System; Food Plants; Weed Control) (NOTE: Plants reported as part of the captive but not the natural diet of sirs. will not necessarily be found under Food Plants. Papers referring to them are, however, indexed here.)
x  1951bMoore, J.C. (TML; Florida; 33-34.)
Food Plants: Eichhornia crassipes
x  1951bMoore, J.C. (Florida; 34.)
Food Plants: Panicum
x  1951bMoore, J.C. (Florida; 33.)
Food Plants: Portulaca grandiflora
x  1951bMoore, J.C. ("Portulacca"; Florida; 34.)
Hunting and Capture
(SEE ALSO: Accidental Death or Injury; Archeological Sites, Sirenians at; Captivity, Sirenians in; Conservation; Economic Use; Natural Enemies; Weed Control)
x  1951aMoore, J.C. (TML; Florida; poaching; 4, 6, 8-11.)
x  1951bMoore, J.C. (TML; Florida; 23, 35.)
Locomotion
(SEE ALSO: Respiration and Diving)
x  1951bMoore, J.C. (TML; facing current, 30; resting posture, 30-31.)
Migration and Movements
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Aggregative; Behavior, Shelter-seeking; Locomotion; Temperature, Effects of)
x  1951aMoore, J.C. (TML; Florida; seasonal movements; 11-12, 15, 18.)
Parasitology
(SEE ALSO: Bacteriology; Community Ecology; Parasites)
x  1951bMoore, J.C. (TML; Florida; algae, barnacles; 26.)
Respiration and Diving
(SEE ALSO: Locomotion)
x *1951bMoore, J.C. (TML; teaching young to breathe, 27; diving times, 29-31; raising head in rough water, 29.)
Salinity Tolerance
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Ingestive)
x  1951aMoore, J.C. (TML; Florida; dispersal down Keys ?limited by lack of fresh water; 5.)
x  1951bMoore, J.C. (TML; Florida Everglades; 25-26.)
Skeleton
(SEE ALSO: Age Determination; Embryology and Ontogeny; Histology; Myology; Sense Organs; Tooth Replacement; and under species)
x  1951aMoore, J.C. (TML, TMM; proportions of foramen magnum; 17-18.)
Temperature, Effects of
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Shelter-seeking or Escape; Migration & Movements; Natural Death or Injury; Pollution, Effects of; Thermoregulation)
x  1951aMoore, J.C. (TML; Florida; effects on movements & behavior; 11-12, 14-15.)
x  1951bMoore, J.C. (TML; Florida; use of warm-water sources, 25; winter mortality, 34-35.)
Texas
x  1951aMoore, J.C. (TMM; subspecific identity, movements; 12, 16, 18.)
Thermoregulation
(SEE ALSO: Temperature, Effects of)
x  1951bMoore, J.C. (TML; ?sunbathing at surface; 32.)
Trichechus manatus latirostris (Harlan, 1824) Hatt, 1934
x *1951aMoore, J.C. (Florida, distr., 1-15; distinguishing characters, 16-18.)
x *1951bMoore, J.C. (Florida Everglades; natural history; 22-36.)
Trichechus manatus manatus Linnaeus, 1758, Hatt, 1934
x  1951aMoore, J.C. (probable occurrence in Texas; distinguishing characters; 16-18.)