Rescued Baby dugong named ‘Yamil’

Rescued Baby dugong named ‘Yamil’

By The Phuket News

The baby male dugong rescued in Krabi and now in care at the Phuket Marine Biological Centre (PMBC) has been named ’Yamil’. Photo: DMCR / Facebook
 

PHUKET: Her Royal Highness Princess Sirivannavari Nariratana Rajakanya has named a baby dugong found washed ashore at Bo Muang Beach in Krabi on July 1, “Yamil”. The dugong is in care at the Phuket Marine Biological Centre (PMBC) at Cape Panwa, on Phuket’s east coast.

“The name means ‘handsome man of the sea’ in the Yawi language,” said Jatuporn Buruspat, Director-General of the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources, reports the Bangkok Post. (See report here.)

HRH Princess Sirivannavari also took Yamil, as well as “Mariam”, another young dugong that was found without her mother in Krabi, under her royal patronage.

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