How To Use Dugong In A Sentence
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The large lagoon and break in the reef attract many species, including dugongs, whale sharks, dolphins and manta rays.
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Of all the cetacea, that which approaches the nearest in form to man is undoubtedly the dugong, which, when its head and breast are raised above the water, and its pectoral fins, resembling hands, are visible, might easily be taken by superstitious seamen for a semi-human being.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 406, December 26, 1829
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M. Cuvier suspects that I may have mistaken for it the animal called by naturalists the dugong, and vulgarly the sea-cow, which will be hereafter mentioned; and it would indeed be a grievous error to mistake for a beast with four legs, a fish with two pectoral fins serving the purposes of feet; but, independently of the authority I have stated, the kuda ayer, or river-horse, is familiarly known to the natives, as is also the duyong (from which M.layan word the dugong of naturalists has been corrupted); and I have only to add that, in a register given by the Philosophical Society of Batavia in the first
The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants
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The order Sirenia is composed of manatees and dugongs, and the order Cetacea includes whales, dolphins, and porpoises.
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This description helps to explain why both the dugong and the manatee have given rise to tales about mermaids, marine creatures with breasts and a forked tail.
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Blacks harpoon dugong as they do turtle, but the sport demands greater patience and dexterity, for the dugong is a wary animal and shy, to be approached only with the exercise of artful caution.
The Confessions of a Beachcomber
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The fisherman found a rare dugong in the water.
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Dugongids lack the vestigial nails on their flippers that are possessed by manatees.
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The Shark Bay project covered all aspects of conservation concerning bilbies, dugongs and other flora and fauna in the area.
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He said this in a despairing tone, for the dugong, which is the
The Castaways
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Not only is the dugong vital, but also the environment inhabited by the dugong.
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America, but the one with which we have to do is the dugong or halicore, of which the distribution is rather widespread, from the Red Sea and
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
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Once a diurnal mammal, the dugong is now nocturnal as it forages for food.
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The entries reveal the use of a rich variety of media and materials including photomontage, ceramics, recycled wire, dugong bone, bronze, feathers, pandanus fibre, and works on paper, bark and canvas.
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They provide food and shelter for thousands of species, including endangered manatees, dugongs and sea turtles.
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In the second place, the horny matter on the palates of the dugong and manatee has not, even initially, that "strainer" action, which is the characteristic function of the Cetacean "baleen.
On the Genesis of Species
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As well as the beautiful scenery, the group had the chance to see dugongs, a cassowary and her stripy chicks, native rats - certainly larger than your average house rat - and wild pigs with their piglets.
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A dugong forages in the seagrass meadows of Shark Bay, Western Australia.
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The dugong is a shy aquatic mammal sometimes known as the "elephant of the sea".
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Dugongs are one of those sea creatures like porpoises and whales which should be completely protected by law.
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The resemblance, in the shape of the body and in the fin-like anterior limbs, between the dugong, which is a pachydermatous animal, and the whale, and between both these mammals and fishes, is analogical.
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
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I know that on the eastern coast of Africa is found a smaller species of walrus called the dugong: it has long incisor teeth, but not tusks; and certainly resembles a seal rather than a walrus.’
Swiss Family Robinson
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The only known 'lek' mating system in any marine mammal in the world is observable amongst South Cove dugong.
Shark Bay, Australia
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Half hippopotamus, half seal, yet in no way related to either, something between a pachyderm and cetacean, the dugong is a herbivorous marine mammal, commonly known as "the sea cow," because of its resemblance in some particulars to that useful domesticated animal.
Confessions of a Beachcomber
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A new report reveals that Tanzania's population of dugongs is on the verge of collapse as a result of accidental entanglement in gill nets.
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The guinea-pig has teeth which are shed before it is born, and hence can never subserve the masticatory purpose for which they seem contrived, and, in like manner, the female dugong has tusks which never cut the gum.
Essays
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Like its relative the manatee, the dugong's numbers are declining, with hunting, oil pollution, land reclamation and other human activities the causes.
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It is also home to threatened species including snubfin dolphins, dugongs, saw sharks and six of the seven sea turtle species, including Australia's own flatback turtle.
Australia's West Kimberley Becomes Heritage Site
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Corystosiren is a late-surviving dugong at a time when sirenian fossils are exceedingly rare in Florida.
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Their time has passed, they belong with the dugong and the manatee.
RUSHING TO PARADISE
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Half hippopotamus, half seal, yet in no way related to either, something between a pachyderm and cetacean, the dugong is a herbivorous marine mammal, commonly known as “the sea cow,” because of its resemblance in some particulars to that useful domesticated animal.
The Confessions of a Beachcomber
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The dugong is a sea mammal found on the north coast of Australia.
Peeps At Many Lands: Australia
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A modern analog for this is the dugong from the Pacific Ocean.
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A large dugong and calf had just surfaced for air and I turned round in time to watch their rounded torsos arc in unison and with a swirl of their tails, they disappeared.
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But, unlike the cow, the dugong has two pectoral mammae instead of an abdominal udder, and like the whale is unable to turn its head, the vertebrae of the neck being, if not fused into one mass, at least compressed into a small space.
The Confessions of a Beachcomber
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The guinea-pig has teeth which are shed before it is born, and hence can never subserve the masticatory purpose for which they seem contrived, and, in like manner, the female dugong has tusks which never cut the gum.
Essays
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A study conducted in 1998 revealed that the ocean beds were contaminated by organic matter and sulphuric compounds, likely to damage the seagrass beds, the main source of dugong food.
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The entries reveal the use of a rich variety of media and materials including photomontage, ceramics, recycled wire, dugong bone, bronze, feathers, pandanus fibre, and works on paper, bark and canvas.
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‘To learn about these mammals - from arsinoitheres, brontotheres, chalicotheres, dugongs, and elephants to yaks and zebras - this is the place to turn.’
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Dr Barbara was staring at the wreck of the Dugong, already bored by the hippies ' plight.
RUSHING TO PARADISE
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It is difficult to imagine that the closest living relatives of the modern elephant are the hyrax rock dassie, about the size of a guinea pig, the dugong, the manatee, and the golden mole of the Namib Desert.
The Elephant's Secret Sense
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A study conducted in 1998 revealed that the ocean beds were contaminated by organic matter and sulphuric compounds, likely to damage the seagrass beds, the main source of dugong food.
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The Sagittaire altered course towards them, her captain clearly set on ramming the Dugong.
RUSHING TO PARADISE
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In the illustration the water was clear, so each feature of the dugong was easily visible.
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Whale sharks pass by in late March and early April and the occasional dugong has been seen.
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Their time has passed, they belong with the dugong and the manatee.
RUSHING TO PARADISE
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Modern sirenians (manatees and dugongs) are large, docile, aquatic herbivores that have flippers for forelimbs and no hind limbs.
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This dugong, which also bears the name of the halicore, closely resembles the manatee; its oblong body terminated in a lengthened tail, and its lateral fins in perfect fingers.
Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
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Dugongs and manatees make up the order Sirenia, so-named because dugongs and manatees are thought to have given rise to the myth of the mermaids or sirens of the sea.
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Genetic evidence suggests that the elephant's closest relatives in evolutionary terms are manatees and dugongs, herbivorous sea cows that live full-time in the water.
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It was not a lamantin, but one of that species of the order of cetaceans, which bear the name of the “dugong,” for its nostrils were open at the upper part of its snout.
The Mysterious Island
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Ang dugong totoo nang atin panginoon Jesuchristo, capara niun nabohos sa cruz nang na matai siya.
Doctrina Christiana The first book printed in the Philippines, Manila, 1593.
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The dugong and the manatee are the descendants of vegetarian hoofed animals; seals, sea-lions and walruses are the descendants of carnivorous animals; beavers are the cousins of purely terrestrial rodents.
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