dugong

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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
• 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
• Corystosiren is a late-surviving dugong at a time when sirenian fossils are exceedingly rare in Florida.
• Their time has passed, they belong with the dugong and the manatee. RUSHING TO PARADISE
• 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
• The dugong is a sea mammal found on the north coast of Australia. Peeps At Many Lands: Australia
• A modern analog for this is the dugong from the Pacific Ocean.
• 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.
• 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
• 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