Bush Hyrax

Heterohyrax brucei (Gray 1868)

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Heterohyrax brucei (Bush Hyrax) is a species of mammals in the family hyraxes. It is found in the Palearctic and the Afrotropics. It is a diurnal herbivore. Individuals are known to live for 168 months and can grow to 2625 g. Reproduction is dioecious. Bush Hyrax relies on arboreal (locomotion) to move around.

URI: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q106447

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URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q59099
Definition: animal anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating plant material

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URI: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q906470
Definition: animal behavior characterized by activity during the day, with a period of inactivity at night.

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URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q148681
Definition: a characteristic of a species, meaning that it has distinct male and female individual organisms.

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URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NBO_0000364
Definition: Behavior related to the locomotion of animals in trees.

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EOL has data for 58 attributes, including:

first appearance
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/FossilFirst
- Definition: The first appearance of this taxon in the fossil record.
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Piacenzian Age
- URI: http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/ics/ischart/Piacenzian
- Attribution: International Chronostratigraphic Chart: http://www.stratigraphy.org/index.php/ics-chart-timescale
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habitat
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002303
- Definition: x has habitat y if: x is an organism, y is a habitat, and y can sustain and allow the growth of a population of x
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terrestrial
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000446
- Definition: A biome that applies to the terrestrial realm.
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locomotion
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0040011
- Definition: Self-propelled movement of a cell or organism from one location to another.
- Attribution: [database_cross_reference: GOC:dgh]
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arboreal locomotion
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NBO_0000364
- Definition: Behavior related to the locomotion of animals in trees.
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number of fossil occurrences
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/fossilOccPBDB
- Definition: The number of fossil occurrences in the Paleobiology Database (https://paleobiodb.org) that are identified as belonging to a particular taxon or any of its subtaxa.
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5
parasitized by
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002445
- Definition: automatically added during harvest
- Comment: Auto-added during harvest #37. A human needs to edit this.
- Attribution: Global Biotic Interactions
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Anoplocephala spatula
preyed upon by
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002458
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Panthera pardus (Linnaeus 1758) (Leopard)
preys on
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002439
- Definition: An interaction relationship involving a predation process, where the subject kills the target in order to eat it or to feed to siblings, offspring or group members
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Maerua triphylla A. Rich.
social group size
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/SocialGroupSize
- Definition: Number of individuals in a group that spends the majority of their time in a 24 hour cycle together where there is some indication that these individuals form a social cohesive unit.
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17.5
teat number
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CMO_0000445
- Definition: The number of teats, protuberances on the mammary glands, breasts or udders of female mammals through which milk is excreted.
- Comment: Ontology Description: http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/CMO
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6
temperature in geographic range
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22.727 0.1°C
trophic level
- URI: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1053008
- Definition: position of an organism in a food web. May be described verbally with descriptors including primary producer, herbivore or carnivore. If described numerically, 1 indicates a primary producer, 2 a herbivore, and so on up the food web.
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herbivore
- URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q59099
- Definition: animal anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating plant material
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weaning age
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/WeaningAge
- Definition: Age when primary nutritional dependency on the mother ends and independent foraging begins to make a major contribution to the offspring’s energy requirements.
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129.04 days

Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of Bush Hyrax. View this species on GBIF

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Bush Hyrax includes 25 children: