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Excerpt from Aerial Surveys for Manatees and Dolphins in Western Peninsular Florida: With Notes on Sightings of Sea Turtles and Crocodiles
Low altitude aerial surveys were conducted at approximately monthly intervals from July to December 1979 to count West Indian manatees (trichechus manatus) and bottlenose dolphins (tursiops truncatus) in western peninsular Florida. Sightings of sea turtles, turtle tracks, and a crocodile were also noted. A total of 554 manatees was observed in 297 groups. Fifty-eight percent of the manatees were sighted in the Collier Monroe Counties area in shallow, brackish inshore areas. A total of bottlenose dolphins was observed in 431 herds, including 700 (in 146 herds) in the Gulf of Mexico, 491 (in 185 herds) in bays, and 192 (in 100 herds) in marsh-river habitats. Fifty-eight sea turtles (including 45 loggerheads, Caretta caretta) and 30 sets of turtle tracks were counted. One crocodile, probably Crocodilus acutus, was sighted in the Everglades National Park.
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