Spatial prioritization of dugong habitats in India can contribute towards achieving the 30 × 30 global biodiversity target Sohom Seal, Sharad Bayyana, Anant Pande, Chinmaya Ghanekar, Prachi Sachchidanand Hatkar, Sameeha Pathan, Shivani Patel, Sagar Rajpurkar, Sumit Prajapati, Swapna...
The latter country possesses an organised dugong fishery, which bids fair to exterminate this harmless animal. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon | Robert A. Sterndale When the female dugong is nursing her offspring the position assumed is almost identical with that of a human ...
top and front of the animal’s snout. The eyes are small, and there are no external earflaps. The skin is generally smooth (not wrinkled, although there are folds) and is sprinkled with short hairs. Themammary glandsof females are located in the axillae (armpits), unlike those of ...
It occurs in India in the Gulf of Mannar and Palk Bay and is captured for its flesh and oil. The dugong has been reported to occur on the Saurashtra coast also. The name dugong is derived from the Malayan name duyong for the animal. Countless stories of mermaids in folklore of various...
Though it is an innocuous animal, man has spared neither its reputation nor its peaceful existence.doi:10.1111/j.1748-1090.1967.tb00398.xS. JONESJohn Wiley & Sons, Ltd (10.1111)International Zoo YearbookJones, S. ( 1967 ). The dugong Dugong dugon (Müller): its present status in the ...
Kongkiat Kittiwatanawong3 & Chatchote Thitaram4 The elemental composition was investigated and applied for identifying the sex and habitat of dugongs, in addition to distinguishing dugong tusks and teeth from other animal wildlife materials such as Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) tusks and tige...
Ethical, Social, Environmental and Economic Issues in Animal Agriculture Cloning (of the 'Dolly' - the sheep kind) will be useful to revive the rare and endangered animal species such as one-horned rhinoceros, swamp deer, wild buffalo and dugongs in India, for restoring environmental balance an...
8 Animal relevance exists between Australia and Africa. Questions 9-13 Summary Complete the following summary of the paragraphs of Reading Passage, using no more than two words from the Reading Passage for each answer. Write your answers in boxes 9-13 on your answer sheet. Wegener found that ...
It occurs in India in the Gulf of Mannar and Palk Bay and is captured for its flesh and oil. The dugong has been reported to occur on the Saurashtra coast also. The name dugong is derived from the Malayan name duyong for the animal. Countless stories of mermaids in folklore of various...
In Thailand, dugongs are categorized as a rare marine mammal by the Wild Animal Reservation and Protection Act, B.E.255310. As in other regions, vulnerability is mainly caused by habitat loss, particularly destruction of seagrasses. The natural distribution of dugongs in Thailand includes coastal...