Dugong - The Australian Museum
Habitat. Dugongs prefer wide shallow bays and areas protected by large inshore islands. Vagrant animals will occasionally appear as far south as southern New South Wales and near Perth in Western Australia. Distribution. The Dugong is found over a broad range of the coastal and inland waters of the western Indo-Pacific region.
Dugongs - DCCEEW
In Australia, dugongs occur in the shallow coastal waters of northern Australia from the Queensland/New South Wales border in the east to Shark Bay on the Western Australian coast. They are also found in other parts of the Indian and Pacific Oceans in warm shallow seas in areas where seagrass is found.
Dugongs - Threatened Status and Facts - Australian Marine Conservation ...
Australia is home to the world’s largest dugong population with more than 100,000 thought to live in the Torres Strait. Dugongs diet consists almost entirely of seagrass. Dugongs can live for around 70 years, but they are slow to mature, with females reaching breeding age at …
Dugong - Wikipedia
Dugongs in Moreton Bay, Australia, are omnivorous, feeding on invertebrates such as polychaetes [94] or marine algae when the supply of their choice grasses decreases. In other southern areas of both western and eastern Australia, there is evidence that dugongs actively seek out large invertebrates.
Dugong | Diet, Size, Habitat, & Facts | Britannica
2024年11月19日 · Australia harbours the largest populations, but dugongs also occur along the western coast of Madagascar, along the eastern coast of Africa, in the Red Sea and Persian Gulf, around the Indian subcontinent, and through the western …
Dugongs | Environment, land and water - Queensland Government
Dugongs are culturally significant to many coastal First Nation communities. The dugong’s distribution stretches across the Indo-Pacific region. Within Australia, it is found from Moreton Bay on the Queensland coast across northern Australia to Shark Bay in Western Australia.
Fact File: Dugong (Dugong dugon) - Australian Geographic
The dugong is one of the ocean’s most interesting inhabitants. More closely related to the elephant than the dolphin or whale, this gentle seagrass-munching mammal is often given the name ‘sea cow’ and rightly so.
Dugong - Great Barrier Reef Foundation
These large creatures are found in warm water around coastlines, both north and south of the equator. They inhabit both freshwater and brackish water, where seagrass beds can be found. Australia hosts the largest number of Dugongs, with the …
Dugong | Reef Authority - gbrmpa
2022年8月22日 · Dugong inhabit shallow, tropical waters throughout the Indo-Pacific region. Most of the world’s dugong population now occurs in northern Australian waters between Shark Bay in Western Australia and Moreton Bay in Queensland. The Great Barrier Reef region supports globally significant populations of dugong.
2.4.16 Dugongs - gbrmpa
2016年4月2日 · Dugongs are the only herbivorous mammals that are strictly marine, and they play a fundamentally important ecological role in the functioning of coastal marine habitats, particularly seagrass systems. As large herbivores, dugongs consume a considerable amount of seagrass (approximately 7 per cent of their body weight per day).