Bush Hyrax

Heterohyrax brucei (Bush Hyrax) is a species of mammals in the family hyraxes. They are found in the palearctic and The Afrotropics. They are diurnal herbivores. Individuals are known to live for 168 months and can grow to 468.99 mm. Reproduction is dioecious. They rely on arboreal (locomotion) to move around.

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

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URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Afrotropical
Attribution: Udvardy, M. D. F. (1975). A classification of the biogeographical provinces of the world. IUCN Occasional Paper no. 18. Morges, Switzerland: IUCN

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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 60 attributes, including:

Male Tenure
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/MaleTenure
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36 months
age at maturity
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/AgeAtMaturity
- Definition: Age at the first successful reproduction.
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16 months
diet breadth
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/DietBreadth
- Definition: Number of dietary categories eaten by an organism.
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5
dispersal age
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/DispersalAge
- Definition: Age at which young permanently leave the parent, parental group, social group or any associated territories.
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638.75 days
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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geographic range (size of area)
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/GeographicRangeArea
- Definition: The total extent of the geographic range of an organism.
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6954996.2 km^2
habitat breadth
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/HabitatBreadth
- Definition: Number of habitat layers used by an organism
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2
inter-birth interval
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/InterBirthInterval
- Definition: The length of time between successive births of a female.
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12 months
litters per year
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/LittersPerYear
- Definition: Number of litters per female per year
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1
mating system
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/MatingSystem
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Not Monogamous
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/notMonogamous
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population group size
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/PopulationGroupSize
- Definition: Number of individuals in a group that spends the majority of their time in a 24 hour cycle together
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34
prenatal development duration
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/PrenatalDevelopmentDuration
- Definition: The duration of the development from fertilized, deposited or implanted egg to hatching/birth. Corresponds to egg incubation duration in oviparous animals and to gestation period duration in viviparous animals.
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229 days

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

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Heterohyrax brucei (Gray 1868)

Bush Hyrax includes 25 children: