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Duyung - Dugong
To know about Duyung
by FDA Widodo

Duyung, Who is that?

Duyung or the Dugong in foreign language is one of the mammals that live in the sea than like the Lumba-lumba and Pope. There are also animals that is almost similar to Duyung, but he lives in the river waters, he was known as the Pesut or Orcaella brevirostis. The area of Pesut living in rivers like the river in East Kalimantan (Pesut Mahakam is located in the Mahakam River, Kalimantan). While the language in which Duyung (Dugong dugong), marine mammals are included in the family Dugongidae of Sirenia order.

Where can be found the Dugong?

Dugong or Duyung spread from Africa to the coast of Papua New Guinea, including them in Southeast Asia and Australia in the North. In Indonesia alone, Duyung spread from Sumatra to the East Kalimantan region, including South Sea of Java, Nusa Tenggara, Sulawesi, and North Maluku, Papua (Cenderawasih Bay) and the Aru Islands in the South Moluccas.

How Duyung status now?

Based on the regulations of Law No 5 / 1990, Duyung is one of the protected marine mammals and existence has been rare. Therefore, those who violate this rule, then akan dipenjara for 5 years or fine of Rp 500 million.

How is actually of Duyung behaviors?

Duyung is a sea mammal. Although most of his life in the sea water and breathe with lungs, Duyung able to dive in the water for almost a basic 15 minutes. Weight of adult Duyung itself reached 400 kg with a body length of up to 3 meters. Duyung is herbivora animal (plant eater). Main feed is yet Duyung (seagrass), which many found in the area of dunes coastal. Duyung is also a nocturnal animal (active at the night). Duyung was on adult age 9-10 years old, he will be pregnant soon and bear children was always 1. While the distance to both the first pregnancy takes 3 - 7 years. So, it is quite difficult to Duyung Maintenance. Duyung female who gave birth to children will continue to maintain and care for the baby at a time until children aged 2 - 3 years. Duyung will continue it living up to reach the age of 70 years.

Whether this present condition in Indonesia, will it support life of Duyung?

As a result of the development of the region and the increasing number of people in Indonesia have also resulted in increased demand for housing as a place to live. Along with that, does not understand the concept of sustainable development and coastal regions are still many seagrass growth that must be destroyed because of the beach hilling or more often called 'reclamation'. If the lack of which have yet Padang in Indonesia, the indirect Duyung will be very existence threatened. Hopefully the development of current and also to the future get be more prudent.

Reading list:

http://marufkasim.blog.com/368507
http://library.thinkquest.org/26184/dugong.htm
http://www.kutaikartanegara.com/pesut.html

July 1, 2009 | 6:05 PM Comments  0 comments

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