By Paul Carter; posted 5 Sep 2022.
This post summarises my mammal records and site information from various trips to Bali (Indonesia). These trips included a surf trip in 2004 (seeing dugong) and two months in 2015; most of the data below is from 2015.
CONTENTS: Mammal List, Site Data, References, Photos.
Dugong dugon
Dugong at Uluwatu Beach, Bali (Indonesia)
Uluwatu Beach is a popular surf spot about 1.5 km north of Uluwatu Temple on the Bukit Peninsula (Bali). Whilst surfing here in January 2004 and waiting in the line-up (small surf, only about 3-foot) I saw the back of a Dugong (Dugong dugon) break the surface, about 15 meters away. An hour later when back on the cliff-top I looked down and had clear views of it feeding on the seagrass.
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