Dugong
Dugong (Dugong dugon), a
marine mammal inhabiting the warm coastal waters of the Indian and
Pacific oceans that feeds on seagrasses and is similar to the American manatee.
Australia harbours the largest populations, but dugongs also occur
along the western coast of Madagascar, the eastern coast of Africa, in
the Red Sea andpersian gulf,
around the Indian subcontinent, and through the western Pacific from
Okinawa to northern Australia. A small isolated population persists in
the remote Pacific archipelago of Palau.
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