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The Manatee in British Honduras

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

John Charnock-Wilson
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The West Indian manatee Trichechus manatus manatus has declined rapidly in many parts of its range and appears on the IUCN's list of endangered species. But in British Honduras last summer the author found an abundance of manatees all along the coast. Moreover, predation is at a minimum: the people who formerly ate manatee meat now show little interest in it, and the alligator, its only other predator, has been persecuted almost to extinction.

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Research Article
Information
Oryx , Volume 9 , Issue 4 , May 1968 , pp. 293 - 294
Copyright
Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1968

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