When Dugongs Turn Bad!
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Seems to me that the Dugongs were completely uninterested in the humans and only interacting with eachother.
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There is at least one documented population of dugongs that demonstrates "lek" mating behavior in Shark Bay, Western Australia. There male dugongs patrol areas about 1km square, waiting for females in estrous to swim through and select a male to mate with. They are known to defend their territories. My "educated" guess is that this male was chasing another male away. But, I can only see the UG area of one-the chaser. Sent you an email, too, please reply when you can.
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@janelshark Yeah. Dugongs and manatees are very playful.
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I know they aren't manatess. But because both are in the Order of Sirenia, I assumed that dugongs would move as slowly as manatees do.
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They AREN'T manatees. Wish people would understand that.
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Wow. After watching manatees for 3 years, I never thought dugongs could move so fast!
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I dont get why people thought it was angry! I mean it was obviously playing w/
the other Dugong. What!? They cant play?
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I'd imagine it was probably mating. A lot of sea creatures, more than land mammals, seem to have a vicious mating "ritual".
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sass0n 4 years ago
Problem #1.) There's a group of 7 or 10 divers within close range to the dugong, no wonder it freaked out.
Problem #2.) In surrounding it like that, you probably invaded its territory, or intruded upon mating season.
People need to remember to keep their distance, or of course these creatures are going to flip out.
HamsterQueen 3 years ago
Fair comment in a way, but we had been watching the dugong for 20 mins, with no reaction, it was calmly feeding. Then when it saw the 2nd dugong it started attacking or mating (you decide!) and the lead one seemed to be using the divers itself to swim through in order to shake the one chasing it... it certainly wasn't us surrounding it that 'freaked' it out... I don't believe it was freaked out at all.
sass0n 3 years ago
I agree there are a few too many divers in the water, but it felt like we were lucky to be witnessing natural behaviour (fighting for territory or a mating ritual) rather than the divers scaring one dugong into chasing the other.
sass0n 3 years ago