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Thai vets nurture lost baby dugong with HEALTH

milk and sea grass DOCTOR ON DUTY

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manatee and can grow to baby dugong separated from her mother, near Libong island, Ambulancia 911
about 3.4 meters (11 feet) Trang province, southern Thailand. Fire Dept. 115
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not swim with the herd and where its feeding is often self from humans but, at this
usually comes straight to watched by scores of peo- point, the emphasis should
them, then follows them ple crowding the seashore. be on her survival.q
into shallower water,
where it is fed milk and sea
grass, similar to her natu- June 18
ral diet, for up to 15 times Freedom of the Seas
a day while also receiving June 19
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