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Dugongs have similar adaptations to whales and dolphins. They look rather like rotund grey-brown dolphins with a fish-like shape, flippers and tails and grow up to three metres long and weigh up to 400kg. Their skin is thick and smooth, with the nostrils near the front of the head enabling them to breath with most of the body beneath the surface. Unlike other mammals, dugongs cannot hold their breath under water for very long. The adaptation is their heavy bones so that they can stay underwater and also their liver, as it removes all of the salt from the plants it eats. Its snout is turned downwards. This adaptation helps the dugong extract its food from the ground.

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Structural- The structural adaptations of the dugong is their fish like body shape and have a greyish brown colour. They have large flippers and tails witch can grow to up to three meters long. They have thick and smooth skin.

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their body like whale/ dolphin shaped fins and that's all i know! sorry

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One of the Dugongs adaptations is it's liver,

it removes all of the salt from the plants that it consumes.

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