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Bibliography Record

x Kataoka, Teruo; Asano, Shiro
  1981
On the keeping of dugong (Dugong dugon) in Toba Aquarium. In: H. Marsh (ed.), The dugong. Proceedings of a seminar/workshop held at James Cook University of North Queensland 8-13 May 1979 (q.v.).
[Townsville (Australia)], James Cook Univ. (vii + 400): 199-203. 4 tabs. 1 fig.
–A slightly more detailed version of Kataoka & Asano (1980), with a graph of food intake and tables showing the chemical composition of the diet used at Toba, the amounts of food consumed per day by various captive dugongs, and additional growth data on the Toba specimen.

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Behavior, Ingestive
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Epimeletic; Behavior, Et-epimeletic; Food; Mastication; Milk)
x  1981Kataoka & Asano (DD; in capt.; feeding at bottom & surface; 200.)
Captivity, Sirenians in
(SEE ALSO: Hunting and Capture; Weed Control)
x  1981Kataoka & Asano (DD; Toba, Japan, & Okinawa; 199-203.)
Dugong dugon (Müller, 1776) Palmer, 1895
x  1981Kataoka & Asano (in capt., Toba, Japan; 199-203.)
Excretion and Defecation
(SEE ALSO: Salinity Tolerance; Urogenital System)
x  1981Kataoka & Asano (DD: in capt.; soft, floating feces; 201.)
Food Plants: Chrysymenia wrighti
x  1981Kataoka & Asano (DD; in capt.; 199.)
Food Plants: Codium decorticatusa
x  1981Kataoka & Asano (DD; in capt.; 199-200.)
Food Plants: Codium magnum
x  1981Kataoka & Asano (DD; in capt.; 199-200.)
Food Plants: Zostera marina
x  1981Kataoka & Asano (DD; in capt.; 199-200.)
Growth Rates
x  1981Kataoka & Asano (DD; in capt., Toba, Japan; 202.)
Philippine Islands
x  1981Kataoka & Asano (DD from Luzon; in capt., Japan; m199.)
Respiration and Diving
(SEE ALSO: Locomotion)
x  1981Kataoka & Asano (DD; in capt., Toba, Japan; range of breathing times; 202.)