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x Bachteler, Daniel; Dehnhardt, Guido
  1998
Tactile sensitivity of facial vibrissae in the Antillean manatee. [Abstr.]
Zoology: Analysis of Complex Systems 101 (Suppl. 1): 44.
–Abstr. of Bachteler & Dehnhardt, 1999. Experiments on a captive manatee showed that the spatial resolving power of the vibrissae is lower than in pinnipeds but very close to that of Asian elephants.

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