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...breast. Sighting these strange creatures centuries ago. sailors plowing Asian seas came home claiming that they had seen women with tails like fish-and thereby started the mermaid legend. Modern scientists paid deference to the legend of the sea sirens by assigning the dugong to the order Sirenia. See SCIENCE, The Useful Manatee...
Modern scientists pay their respects to the classics by classifying dugongs in the order Sirenia. In a well-meaning gesture, Dr. Harry and his colleagues named Eugenie for the world's most comely ichthyologist: Dr. Eugenie (Lady with a Spear} Clark. Yet on closer inspection, the dugong is no pinup ,girl. Both male and female dugongs have sharp, coarse whiskers and give off what is delicately described as "a strong, distinct, aromatic dugong odor." Clams & Cucumbers. The dugong shows signs of becoming extinct. Hundreds were slaughtered in the 18705 after an Australian firm offered $9 a gallon...
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