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x Whiting, Scott D.
  1997
Opportunistic observations of marine mammals from the coastal waters of Fog Bay, Northern Territory.
Northern Territory Naturalist 15: 16-26. 2 tabs. 1 fig. Pl. 4.
–Lists & discusses 15 sightings of 18 dugongs made from a small boat in 1996-97. Notes group sizes, apparent sheltering behavior, association with remoras, and injury to one animal possibly caused by a fishing net or line.

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Australia
   1997Whiting, S.D. (DD; Fog Bay, Northern Territory)
x  1997Whiting, S.D. (DD; Fog Bay, Northern Territory; 16-26.)
Behavior, Aggregative
(SEE ALSO: Aerial Surveys of Distribution)
x  1997Whiting, S.D. (DD; Northern Territory, Australia; group sizes; 19, 21, 25-26.)
Behavior, Shelter-seeking or Escape
(SEE ALSO: Hunting and Capture; Migration and Movements; Natural Death or Injury; Temperature, Effects of)
x  1997Whiting, S.D. (DD; Northern Territory, Australia; sheltering from winds & ?sharks; 21.)
Dugong dugon (Müller, 1776) Palmer, 1895
x  1997Whiting, S.D. (Fog Bay, Northern Territory, Australia; 16-26.)
Parasitology
(SEE ALSO: Bacteriology; Community Ecology; Parasites)
x  1997Whiting, S.D. (DD; Australia; remoras; 19.)