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The sea-grass meadows also provide ample food for some 10,000 resident dugongs, or sea cows. These gentle and inquisitive mammals, which weigh up to 880 pounds [400 kg], quietly graze the abundant underwater pastures, sometimes in herds of over 100. Northern Australia, from Shark Bay in the west to Moreton Bay in the east, may now harbor most of the world’s dugongs.b
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b Although related to manatees, dugongs are a different species. Manatees have a rounded tail, while dugongs have one that is pointed, like that of a dolphin.
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[Picture on page 16, 17]
A gentle dugong, or sea cow
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© GBRMPA
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