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  Whiting, Scott D.
  2002b
Rocky reefs provide foraging habitat for dugongs in the Darwin region of northern Australia.
Australian Mammalogy 24: 147-150. 1 tab. 1 fig.
–Describes dugongs regularly feeding on algal-covered intertidal rocky reefs.

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Australia
   2002aWhiting, S.D. (DD; Darwin Harbour, Northern Territory; dive times)
   2002bWhiting, S.D. (DD; Darwin region, Northern Territory)
Behavior, Ingestive
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Epimeletic; Behavior, Et-epimeletic; Food; Mastication; Milk)
   2002aWhiting, S.D. (DD; Northern Territory, Australia; dive times)
   2002bWhiting, S.D. (DD; Northern Territory, Australia; foraging on intertidal algae)
Dugong dugon (Müller, 1776) Palmer, 1895
   2002aWhiting, S.D. (Northern Territory, Australia; dive times)
   2002bWhiting, S.D. (Northern Territory, Australia; foraging on algae)
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.)
   2002aWhiting, S.D. (Northern Territory, Australia; algae)
  *2002bWhiting, S.D. (Northern Territory, Australia; algae)
Respiration and Diving
(SEE ALSO: Locomotion)
   2002aWhiting, S.D. (DD; Northern Territory, Australia; dive times)