Dugong
Dugong dugon · Mammal
A sea cow of 2.4 to 4 m and 230 to 400 kg that grazes seagrass meadows in warm, shallow bays, mangrove channels and reef waters from East Africa and the Red Sea to the western Pacific, mostly around 10 m deep. It pulls up whole plants, roots and all, leaving furrows visible from the surface; usually alone or in pairs, it sometimes gathers in herds of up to 200. Hunted for thousands of years for its meat and oil, still prized foods of Torres Strait Islanders and Aboriginal Australians.
- Danger
- Harmless
- How it is met
- In pairs, by day
- Size
- Large
- In winter
- Active in winter
Where it lives
Mangrove, Coastal Shelf, Coral Reef
Gives
Dugong Meat, Dugong Oil, Dugong Tusk
Sources
- Nicole Macdonald, Dugong dugon (dugong). Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, 2011.
- Dugong. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 2026.
- Dugong. Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre, 2026.
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