FOOD-HANDLING ABILITY AND FEEDING-CYCLE LENGTH OF MANATEES FEEDING ON SEVERAL SPECIES OF AQUATIC PLANTS - Marshall, Christopher D.; Kubilis, Paul S.; Huth, Glenn D.; Edmonds, Virginia M.; Halin, Deborah L.; Reep, Roger L. (Journal of mammalogy, 2000)
Keywords: Animal behavior; Animal ethology; Animal feeding behavior; Aquatic mammals; Aquatic plants; Biological and medical sciences; Body length; consumption; Experimentation; FEATURE ARTICLES; Feeding; feeding behavior; Food; Food handling; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; herbivory; Mammalia; Mammalogy; Mammals; Manatees; Mastication; perioral bristles; Plants; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Sirenia; Vertebrata; Zoos; Feeding behavior; Herbivorous; Aquatic environment; Vertebrata; Mammalia; Sirenia; Food intake; Animal plant relation; Body size; Trichechus manatus; Captivity; Zoo; Handling