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POSTMORTEM FINDINGS FROM DUGONG (DUGONG DUGON) SUBMISSIONS TO THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND: 19972010

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Title
POSTMORTEM FINDINGS FROM DUGONG (DUGONG DUGON) SUBMISSIONS TO THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND: 19972010
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Journal of Wildlife Diseases, October 2012
DOI 10.7589/2011-03-080
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Helen Owen, Alison Gillespie, Ian Wilkie

Abstract

To better record and characterize mortality in the declining population of dugong (Dugong dugon) in southeast Queensland, Australia, animals were collected and brought to the University of Queensland for postmortem examination. Fifty-five animals were examined over a 14-yr period. Human activities commonly caused the animal death. Several deaths were attributed to primary or secondary infections and idiopathic and degenerative diseases. A significant proportion of animals were found to have nonspecific signs of chronic debility, but the causes of disease and mortality in these cases remains to be identified.

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Country Count As %
United States 1 3%
Unknown 38 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Other 10 26%
Researcher 9 23%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 15%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 8%
Student > Bachelor 3 8%
Other 4 10%
Unknown 4 10%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 9 23%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 8 21%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 7 18%
Environmental Science 6 15%
Unspecified 1 3%
Other 2 5%
Unknown 6 15%