Three weeks after it was beached by waves, a baby dugong or sea cow (Dugong dugon) died due to diarrhea on Oct. 4, but its finders are mourning its loss, like it was one of their own. The dugong, a little over a meter long, was rescued off Barangay Duyong, the coastal town of Pandan town, some 123 kilometers from the capital town of San Jose, Antique. It was beached on the house of Guillermo Unlayao, an employee of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (Seafdec).

Labiste, M. D. (2003, October 25). Villagers mourn the death of dugong. Philippine Daily Inquirer, p. A20.