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x Dekker, Dick
  1974a
Transport of manatees Trichechus m. manatus.
Internatl. Zoo Yearbk. 14: 68-69.
–Account of the two-week transport by ship of four manatees from Suriname to Holland in Oct. 1966; two died (of cold?), two survived with bruises. Air transport is recommended for future attempts.

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Behavior, Shelter-seeking or Escape
(SEE ALSO: Hunting and Capture; Migration and Movements; Natural Death or Injury; Temperature, Effects of)
x  1974bDekker, D. (TM; Suriname; swimming away from boats with "head and shoulders above water"; 2.)
Captivity, Sirenians in
(SEE ALSO: Hunting and Capture; Weed Control)
x  1974aDekker, D. (TMM; shipboard transport, Suriname-Amsterdam; 68-69.)
x  1974bDekker, D. (TMM; Suriname; capture of 15; 3.)
Food Plants: Montrichardia
xv 1974bDekker, D. ("mokko mokko"; Suriname; 2.)
Locomotion
(SEE ALSO: Respiration and Diving)
x  1974bDekker, D. (TMM; Suriname; swimming with "head & shoulders above water"; 2.)
Pathology
(SEE ALSO: Bacteriology; Biochemistry; Natural Death or Injury; Parasites; Parasitology; Pollution, Effects of; Temperature, Effects of; Teratology; Virology)
x  1974aDekker, D. (TMM from Suriname; in capt., Amsterdam; bruises, saliva in bronchi; 68.)
x  1974bDekker, D. (TMM; Suriname; thinness; 3.)
Population Biology
(SEE ALSO: Aerial Surveys of Distribution; Age Determination; Birth and Breeding)
x  1974bDekker, D. (TMM; Suriname; 14:1 sex ratio among 15 animals caught; 3.)
Suriname
x  1974aDekker, D. (TMM; 4 captured; 68.)
x  1974bDekker, D. (TMM; gen. acc.; 1-3.)
Temperature, Effects of
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Shelter-seeking or Escape; Migration & Movements; Natural Death or Injury; Pollution, Effects of; Thermoregulation)
x *1974aDekker, D. (TMM; shipboard transport; 68-69.)
Trichechus manatus manatus Linnaeus, 1758, Hatt, 1934
x  1974aDekker, D. (Suriname; 4 captured; 68.)
x  1974bDekker, D. (Suriname; gen. acc.; 1-3.)