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x Heinsohn, George Edwin; Wake, Judith Ann
  1976
The importance of the Fraser Island region to dugongs.
Operculum 5(1): 15-18. 3 figs. Mar. 1976.
–Reports results of aerial surveys showing dugong concentrations in Great Sandy Strait and Hervey Bay, Queensland, Australia; emphasizes dugongs' need for protected seagrass beds and the vulnerability of the latter to human activities.

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Accidental Death or Injury
(SEE ALSO: Conservation; Hunting and Capture; Natural Death or Injury)
x *1976Heinsohn, Marsh & Spain (DD; Australia, Kenya; nets; 117-121.)
Aerial Surveys of Distribution
x  1976Heinsohn & Wake (DD; eastern Queensland; 16-18.)
x  1976Heinsohn, Spain & Anderson (DD; Queensland; 21-23.)
Africa
(SEE ALSO: Indian Ocean; Egypt; Madagascar; Red Sea)
x  1976Heinsohn, Marsh & Spain (DD; Kenya; accidental netting; 121.)
Australia
x  1976Heinsohn & Wake (Fraser Is., Queensland, as dugong habitat; 15-18.)
x  1976Heinsohn, Marsh & Spain (DD; netting technique; 117-121.)
x  1976Heinsohn, Spain & Anderson (DD; Queensland; aerial surveys; 21-23.)
Behavior, Aggregative
(SEE ALSO: Aerial Surveys of Distribution)
x  1976Heinsohn & Wake (DD; Australia; 17.)
x  1976Heinsohn, Spain & Anderson (DD; Australia; 22-23.)
Behavior, Ingestive
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Epimeletic; Behavior, Et-epimeletic; Food; Mastication; Milk)
x  1976Heinsohn, Spain & Anderson (DD; Australia; raising silt clouds; 22.)
Behavior, Shelter-seeking or Escape
(SEE ALSO: Hunting and Capture; Migration and Movements; Natural Death or Injury; Temperature, Effects of)
x  1976Heinsohn & Wake (DD; Australia; favoring protected waters; 16-18.)
x  1976Heinsohn, Marsh & Spain (DD; Australia; behavior when netted; 119-120.)
Conservation
(SEE ALSO: Accidental Death or Injury; Economic Uses; Hunting and Capture; Weed Control)
x  1976Heinsohn & Wake (DD; Fraser Is., Australia; 15-18.)
Dugong dugon (Müller, 1776) Palmer, 1895
x  1976Heinsohn & Wake (Fraser Is., Queensland; habitat; 15-18.)
x  1976Heinsohn, Marsh & Spain (Queensland; netting technique; 117-121.)
x  1976Heinsohn, Spain & Anderson (Queensland; aerial surveys; 21-23.)
Hunting and Capture
(SEE ALSO: Accidental Death or Injury; Archeological Sites, Sirenians at; Captivity, Sirenians in; Conservation; Economic Use; Natural Enemies; Weed Control)
x *1976Heinsohn, Marsh & Spain (DD; Australia, nets, netting technique, 117-121; Kenya, accidental netting, 121.)
Locomotion
(SEE ALSO: Respiration and Diving)
x  1976Heinsohn, Spain & Anderson (DD; Australia; traveling at surface; calves with ?mothers; 22-23.)
Migration and Movements
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Aggregative; Behavior, Shelter-seeking; Locomotion; Temperature, Effects of)
x  1976Heinsohn & Wake (DD; Australia; aerial survey of movements; 17-18.)
Pollution, Effects of
(SEE ALSO: Temperature, Effects of)
x  1976Heinsohn & Wake (DD; Australia; sandmining; 15-18.)