Manatee (English Wikipedia)

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National Research Council (2002). Making Aquatic Weeds Useful. The Minerva Group. p. 35. ISBN 978-0-89499-180-6. In the Georgetown Water and Sewerage Works, two manatees [...] were introduced in 1952 to a canal [...] In the 24 years since then, manatees have been used to keep this water (the city's municipal supply) weed-free.

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Aronson, Claire. "Guinness World Records names Snooty of Bradenton as 'Oldest Manatee in Captivity'". bradenton.com. Bradenton Herald. Archived from the original on 28 June 2015. Retrieved 26 June 2015.

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"Rescue, Rehabilitation and Release of Florida Manatees". Archived from the original on 2017-01-01. Retrieved 2016-12-31.

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Amanda Jackson (17 Feb 2022). "Florida wildlife officials are distributing 3,000 pounds of lettuce a day to save starving manatees". CNN. Archived from the original on 24 February 2022. Retrieved 24 February 2022.

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"Record 6,250 Manatees Spotted in Florida Waters". Discovery. February 26, 2016. Archived from the original on February 28, 2016. Retrieved February 26, 2016.

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Russell, Mark (22 December 2023). "Mexico's Manatees – the Sirens of the Caribbean". Dive Magazine. Retrieved 27 December 2024.

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Hautier, Lionel; Weisbecker, V; Sánchez-Villagra, M. R.; Goswami, A; Asher, R. J. (2010). "Skeletal development in sloths and the evolution of mammalian vertebral patterning". PNAS. 107 (44): 18903–18908. Bibcode:2010PNAS..10718903H. doi:10.1073/pnas.1010335107. PMC 2973901. PMID 20956304.
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de Souza, Érica Martinha Silva; Freitas, Lucas; da Silva Ramos, Elisa Karen; Selleghin-Veiga, Giovanna; Rachid-Ribeiro, Michelle Carneiro; Silva, Felipe André; Marmontel, Miriam; dos Santos, Fabrício Rodrigues; Laudisoit, Anne; Verheyen, Erik; Domning, Daryl P. (2021-02-11). "The evolutionary history of manatees told by their mitogenomes". Scientific Reports. 11 (1): 3564. Bibcode:2021NatSR..11.3564D. doi:10.1038/s41598-021-82390-2. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 7878490. PMID 33574363.
Henaut, Yann; Charles, Aviva; Delfour, Fabienne (24 August 2022). "Cognition of the manatee: past research and future developments". Animal Cognition. 25 (5): 1049–1058. doi:10.1007/s10071-022-01676-8. PMID 36002602. S2CID 251808935. Archived from the original on 30 October 2022. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
O'Shea, Thomas J.; Lynn B. Poché, Jr. (2006). "Aspects of Underwater Sound Communication in Florida Manatees (Trichechus manatus latirostris)". Journal of Mammalogy. 87 (6): 1061–1071. doi:10.1644/06-MAMM-A-066R1.1. ISSN 0022-2372. JSTOR 4126883. S2CID 42302073.
Lefebvre, Lynn W.; Provancha, Jane A.; Slone, Daniel H.; Kenworthy, W. Judson (2017). "Manatee grazing impacts on a mixed species seagrass bed". Marine Ecology Progress Series. 564: 29–45. Bibcode:2017MEPS..564...29L. doi:10.3354/meps11986. ISSN 0171-8630. JSTOR 24898254. Archived from the original on 2024-01-27. Retrieved 2021-06-16.
Domning, Daryl P. (1981). "Sea Cows and Sea Grasses". Paleobiology. 7 (4): 417–420. Bibcode:1981Pbio....7..417D. doi:10.1017/S009483730002546X. ISSN 0094-8373. JSTOR 2400692. S2CID 88809167. Archived from the original on 2024-01-27. Retrieved 2021-06-16.
Powell, James (1978). "Evidence for carnivory in manatee (Trichechus manatus)". Journal of Mammalogy. 59 (2): 442. doi:10.2307/1379938. JSTOR 1379938.
Ortiz, RM; Worthy, GA; MacKenzie, DS (July 1998). "Osmoregulation in wild and captive West Indian manatees (Trichechus manatus)" (PDF). Physiological Zoology. 71 (4): 449–57. doi:10.1086/515427. hdl:1969.1/182579. PMID 9678505. S2CID 40972754. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 August 2022. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
Robles Herrejón, Juan Carlos; Morales-Vela, Benjamín; Ortega-Argueta, Alejandro; Pozo, Carmen; Olivera-Gómez, León David (June 2020). "Management effectiveness in marine protected areas for conservation of Antillean manatees on the eastern coast of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico". Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 30 (6): 1182–1193. Bibcode:2020ACMFE..30.1182R. doi:10.1002/aqc.3323. ISSN 1052-7613. Archived from the original on 2022-11-21. Retrieved 2024-03-05.
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Gaspard, Joseph C.; Bauer, Gordon B.; Reep, Roger L.; Dziuk, Kimberly; Cardwell, Adrienne; Read, Latoshia; Mann, David A. (2012). "Audiogram and auditory critical ratios of two Florida manatees (Trichechus manatus latirostris)". Journal of Experimental Biology. 215 (9): 1442–1447. Bibcode:2012JExpB.215.1442G. doi:10.1242/jeb.065649. PMID 22496279. S2CID 11725126.
Gerstein, Edmund (March–April 2002). "Manatees, Bioacoustics and Boats". American Scientist. p. 154. doi:10.1511/2002.10.154.
Aipanjiguly, Sampreethi; Jacobson, Susan K.; Flamm, Richard (2003). "Conserving Manatees: Knowledge, Attitudes, and Intentions of Boaters in Tampa Bay, Florida". Conservation Biology. 17 (4): 1098–1105. Bibcode:2003ConBi..17.1098A. doi:10.1046/j.1523-1739.2003.01452.x. S2CID 86770081. Archived from the original on 2021-11-26. Retrieved 2021-11-26.
Flewelling, LJ; Naar, JP; Abbott, JP; Baden, DG; Barros, NB; Bossart, GD; Bottein, MY; Hammond, DG; et al. (9 June 2005). "Brevetoxicosis: Red tides and marine mammal mortalities". Nature. 435 (7043): 755–756. Bibcode:2005Natur.435..755F. doi:10.1038/nature435755a. PMC 2659475. PMID 15944690.
Weber Rosas, F.C. (June 1994). "Biology, conservation, and status of the Amazonian Manatee Trichechus inunguis". Mammal Review. 24 (2): 49–59. Bibcode:1994MamRv..24...49R. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2907.1994.tb00134.x.

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Carr, John; Milstein, Tema (2018). "Keep Burning Coal or the Manatee Gets It: Rendering the Carbon Economy Invisible through Endangered Species Protection". Antipode. 50: 82–100.
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floridatoday.com

Basu, Rebecca (1 March 2010). "Winter is culprit in manatee death toll". Melbourne, Florida: Florida Today. p. 1A. Archived from the original on February 22, 2014.

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"Manatee (Trichechus manatus) | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service". FWS.gov. Archived from the original on 2023-09-13. Retrieved 2023-09-12.
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Service, U. S. Fish and Wildlife. "U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to Reclassify West Indian Manatee from Endangered to Threatened". www.fws.gov (Press release). Archived from the original on 2021-05-08. Retrieved 2021-03-25.
"Endangered Species | Class of 1967". www.fws.gov. Archived from the original on 2020-05-24. Retrieved 2020-01-30.
"Manatee reclassified from endangered to threatened as habitat improves and population expands - existing federal protections remain in place". Southeast Region of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Archived from the original on 2020-05-29. Retrieved 2020-04-07.
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Ortiz, RM; Worthy, GA; MacKenzie, DS (July 1998). "Osmoregulation in wild and captive West Indian manatees (Trichechus manatus)" (PDF). Physiological Zoology. 71 (4): 449–57. doi:10.1086/515427. hdl:1969.1/182579. PMID 9678505. S2CID 40972754. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 August 2022. Retrieved 11 February 2024.

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Hautier, Lionel; Weisbecker, V; Sánchez-Villagra, M. R.; Goswami, A; Asher, R. J. (2010). "Skeletal development in sloths and the evolution of mammalian vertebral patterning". PNAS. 107 (44): 18903–18908. Bibcode:2010PNAS..10718903H. doi:10.1073/pnas.1010335107. PMC 2973901. PMID 20956304.
Frietson Galis (1999). "Why do almost all mammals have seven cervical vertebrae? Developmental constraints, Hox genes and Cancer" (PDF). Journal of Experimental Zoology. 285 (1): 19–26. Bibcode:1999JEZ...285...19G. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1097-010X(19990415)285:1<19::AID-JEZ3>3.0.CO;2-Z. PMID 10327647. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2004-11-10.
de Souza, Érica Martinha Silva; Freitas, Lucas; da Silva Ramos, Elisa Karen; Selleghin-Veiga, Giovanna; Rachid-Ribeiro, Michelle Carneiro; Silva, Felipe André; Marmontel, Miriam; dos Santos, Fabrício Rodrigues; Laudisoit, Anne; Verheyen, Erik; Domning, Daryl P. (2021-02-11). "The evolutionary history of manatees told by their mitogenomes". Scientific Reports. 11 (1): 3564. Bibcode:2021NatSR..11.3564D. doi:10.1038/s41598-021-82390-2. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 7878490. PMID 33574363.
Lefebvre, Lynn W.; Provancha, Jane A.; Slone, Daniel H.; Kenworthy, W. Judson (2017). "Manatee grazing impacts on a mixed species seagrass bed". Marine Ecology Progress Series. 564: 29–45. Bibcode:2017MEPS..564...29L. doi:10.3354/meps11986. ISSN 0171-8630. JSTOR 24898254. Archived from the original on 2024-01-27. Retrieved 2021-06-16.
Domning, Daryl P. (1981). "Sea Cows and Sea Grasses". Paleobiology. 7 (4): 417–420. Bibcode:1981Pbio....7..417D. doi:10.1017/S009483730002546X. ISSN 0094-8373. JSTOR 2400692. S2CID 88809167. Archived from the original on 2024-01-27. Retrieved 2021-06-16.
Robles Herrejón, Juan Carlos; Morales-Vela, Benjamín; Ortega-Argueta, Alejandro; Pozo, Carmen; Olivera-Gómez, León David (June 2020). "Management effectiveness in marine protected areas for conservation of Antillean manatees on the eastern coast of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico". Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 30 (6): 1182–1193. Bibcode:2020ACMFE..30.1182R. doi:10.1002/aqc.3323. ISSN 1052-7613. Archived from the original on 2022-11-21. Retrieved 2024-03-05.
Gaspard, Joseph C.; Bauer, Gordon B.; Reep, Roger L.; Dziuk, Kimberly; Cardwell, Adrienne; Read, Latoshia; Mann, David A. (2012). "Audiogram and auditory critical ratios of two Florida manatees (Trichechus manatus latirostris)". Journal of Experimental Biology. 215 (9): 1442–1447. Bibcode:2012JExpB.215.1442G. doi:10.1242/jeb.065649. PMID 22496279. S2CID 11725126.
Aipanjiguly, Sampreethi; Jacobson, Susan K.; Flamm, Richard (2003). "Conserving Manatees: Knowledge, Attitudes, and Intentions of Boaters in Tampa Bay, Florida". Conservation Biology. 17 (4): 1098–1105. Bibcode:2003ConBi..17.1098A. doi:10.1046/j.1523-1739.2003.01452.x. S2CID 86770081. Archived from the original on 2021-11-26. Retrieved 2021-11-26.
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Weber Rosas, F.C. (June 1994). "Biology, conservation, and status of the Amazonian Manatee Trichechus inunguis". Mammal Review. 24 (2): 49–59. Bibcode:1994MamRv..24...49R. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2907.1994.tb00134.x.

iucnredlist.org

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Domning, Daryl P. (1982). "Evolution of Manatees: A Speculative History". Journal of Paleontology. 56 (3): 599–619. JSTOR 1304394.
O'Shea, Thomas J.; Lynn B. Poché, Jr. (2006). "Aspects of Underwater Sound Communication in Florida Manatees (Trichechus manatus latirostris)". Journal of Mammalogy. 87 (6): 1061–1071. doi:10.1644/06-MAMM-A-066R1.1. ISSN 0022-2372. JSTOR 4126883. S2CID 42302073.
Lefebvre, Lynn W.; Provancha, Jane A.; Slone, Daniel H.; Kenworthy, W. Judson (2017). "Manatee grazing impacts on a mixed species seagrass bed". Marine Ecology Progress Series. 564: 29–45. Bibcode:2017MEPS..564...29L. doi:10.3354/meps11986. ISSN 0171-8630. JSTOR 24898254. Archived from the original on 2024-01-27. Retrieved 2021-06-16.
Domning, Daryl P. (1981). "Sea Cows and Sea Grasses". Paleobiology. 7 (4): 417–420. Bibcode:1981Pbio....7..417D. doi:10.1017/S009483730002546X. ISSN 0094-8373. JSTOR 2400692. S2CID 88809167. Archived from the original on 2024-01-27. Retrieved 2021-06-16.
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Hautier, Lionel; Weisbecker, V; Sánchez-Villagra, M. R.; Goswami, A; Asher, R. J. (2010). "Skeletal development in sloths and the evolution of mammalian vertebral patterning". PNAS. 107 (44): 18903–18908. Bibcode:2010PNAS..10718903H. doi:10.1073/pnas.1010335107. PMC 2973901. PMID 20956304.
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O'Shea, Thomas J.; Lynn B. Poché, Jr. (2006). "Aspects of Underwater Sound Communication in Florida Manatees (Trichechus manatus latirostris)". Journal of Mammalogy. 87 (6): 1061–1071. doi:10.1644/06-MAMM-A-066R1.1. ISSN 0022-2372. JSTOR 4126883. S2CID 42302073.
Domning, Daryl P. (1981). "Sea Cows and Sea Grasses". Paleobiology. 7 (4): 417–420. Bibcode:1981Pbio....7..417D. doi:10.1017/S009483730002546X. ISSN 0094-8373. JSTOR 2400692. S2CID 88809167. Archived from the original on 2024-01-27. Retrieved 2021-06-16.
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