As you’ll see in this amazing YouTube video, dugongs are famous for moving along the ocean floor like vacuum ... What appears to be a dugong vacuuming the ocean floor is actually a dugong eating.

A dugong in the Philippines has two sets of companions, streamlined remoras and striped golden jacks. ... In fact, they only want to eat what the shrimp goby feeds his shrimp.

By Carolyn Cowan Unprecedented numbers of emaciated dugongs have washed up dead along Thailand’s Andaman Sea coast over the past three years, prompting marine scientists to urgently investigate ...

Dugongs are occasionally entangled in fishing nets, and the seagrass that they eat in the South China Sea’s northern reaches has degraded over the years.

The prospect for dugongs is not only a guaranteed food source — they must eat 10% of their body weight each day, according to Marshall — but also more space where they can safely breed and nurse.

When they don’t have enough seagrass to eat, dugongs may delay breeding. And as seagrass increasingly disappears from the world’s oceans, dugong populations can fall into a downward spiral.

Eating dugong meat is also believed by some to imbue long life, while others claim the bones ward off evil spirits. More importantly, dugongs, ...

Dugongs look similar to their close cousins, manatees, but can be easily distinguished by the shapes of their snouts and tails. ... as even manatees have been recorded occasionally eating fish.

Case in point: the dugong. As you’ll see in this amazing YouTube video, dugongs are famous for moving along the ocean floor like vacuum cleaners, appearing to suck up.

The prospect for dugongs is not only a guaranteed food source — they must eat 10% of their body weight each day, according to Marshall — but also more space where they can safely breed and nurse.