Encephalization Quotients and Life-History Traits in the Sirenia
- 7 December 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Mammalogy
- Vol. 71 (4) , 534-543
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1381792
Abstract
Relative brain size in the Sirenia is unusually small. Encephalization quotients are 0.27 for Florida manatees (Trichechus manatus) and 0.38 for dugoThis publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
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