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The waters off Qatar are home to the world’s second-largest population of dugongs, sea mammals that eat underwater grass.Usually, they like to move alone, or...
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Along the coast of Abu Dhabi, development is spilling into the sea, smothering the sea grass beds that nourish rare marine mammals called dugongs. Subscribe...
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Australia is fortunate to have the largest Dugong population in the world. Ben Cropp meets with scientists and experts from the Great Barrier Reef Marine Par...
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Join us on an unforgettable journey to uncover the fascinating world of dugongs! These gentle giants, also known as sea cows, are often misunderstood creatur...
Sep 27, 2021 · Analyses of growth layers in bisected dugong tusks have revealed that dugongs are long-lived, with a maximum longevity record of 73 years (estimated from a female individual found in Western Australia 5). An (almost) vegetarian marine mammal. Dugongs and manatees are the only predominantly herbivorous aquatic mammals.
In the lagoon formed by the Great Barrier Reef grows fields of sea grass that house a plethora of sea creatures, one of them being the Dugong. Subscribe: ht...
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Dugong dugon is the only extant species of the family Dugongidae, and one of only four extant species of the Sirenia order, the others forming the manatee family. [13] It was first classified by Müller in 1776 as Trichechus dugon, [14] a member of the manatee genus previously defined by Linnaeus. [15]
