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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 44. Chapters: Dugong, Beluga whale, Rufous-collared Sparrow, Hoatzin, Honey Badger, Cape Sparrow, Meerkat, Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis, Pea aphid, Pallas's Cat, Guanaco, Tui Parakeet, Broad whitefish, Myzus persicae, Baillon's Crake, Red-vented Cockatoo, Riccardoella limacum, Azure-winged Magpie, Violet Lorikeet, Eastern Red Bat, Episyrphus balteatus, Myolepta potens, Thistle tortoise beetle, Euscorpius flavicaudis, Hooded Pitta, Dark Dagger, Thysania agrippina, Pseudovadonia livida, Dotted Border, Eriothrix rufomaculata, Gonia capitata, Banded Pitta, Green-headed Tanager, Minor Shoulder-knot, Poplar Grey, Sericomyia silentis, Greater Grison, Eristalis horticola, Amarynthis meneria, Chrysotoxum cautum, Xanthogramma pedissequum, Slender sunfish, Blue-winged Pitta, Red-necked Tanager, Conops quadrifasciatus, Trixa conspersa, Bosmina longirostris, Physocephala nigra, Dotted Tanager, Tipula fulvipennis, Melanargia arge, Marail Guan, Leucozona laternaria. Excerpt: The dugong (Dugong dugon) is a large marine mammal which, together with the manatees, is one of four living species of the order Sirenia. It is the only living representative of the once-diverse family Dugongidae; its closest modern relative, Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas), was hunted to extinction in the 18th century. It is also the only sirenian in its range, which spans the waters of at least 37 countries throughout the Indo-Pacific, though the majority of dugongs live in the northern waters of Australia between Shark Bay and Moreton Bay. The dugong is the only strictly-marine herbivorous mammal, as all species of manatee utilise fresh water to some degree. Like all modern sirenians, the dugong has a fusiform body with no dorsal fin or hind limbs, instead possessing paddle-like forelimbs used to manoeuvre. It is easily distinguished from the manatees by its ...
