Nile Lechwe

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Kobus megaceros (Nile Lechwe) is a species of mammals in the family Bovidae. They are native to Ethiopia. They are diurnal herbivores. Individuals are known to live for 224.04 months. Reproduction is viviparous. They have parental care (female provides care). They rely on running to move around.

• URI: http://www.marinespecies.org/traits/Viviparous
• Definition: 1) Producing live offspring from within the body of the parent (Lincoln et al., 1998). 2) Development of an embryo within the body of the parent, in part, resources passing directly from parent to embryo (Barnes et al., 2006).
• Attribution: <Lincoln, R., Boxshall, G. & Clark, P., 1998. A dictionary of ecology, evolution and systematics %282nd ed.%29. Cambridge: Cambridge University of Press. Barnes R.S.K., Calow P., Olive P.J.W., Golding, D.W, and Spicer, J.I. 2006. The invertebrates: a new synthesis, Oxford: Blackwell Science Ltd.
  http://www.marinespecies.org/traits/wiki/Traits:Viviparous>

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• URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/parentalCareFemale
• Definition: the female feeds and nurtures offspring
• Attribution: <Richard M. Sibly, Christopher C. Witt, Natalie A. Wright, Chris Venditti, Walter Jetz, and James H. Brown. 2012. Energetics, lifestyle, and reproduction in birds. PNAS 109%2827%29:10937-10941, doi:10.1073/pnas.1206512109>

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• URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NBO_0000055
• Definition: The act of locomoting on limbs with body off the ground such that periodically none of the limbs are touching the ground.

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EOL has data for 56 attributes, including:

• geographic range (size of area)
• social system
  • URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/SocialSystem
  • Definition: Description of the relationships among individuals within a population of organisms, including reproductive relationships (mating system), relationships within each sex, adult – young interactions, helpers and cooperation (group living).
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• temperature in geographic range
  • URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/TemperatureInRange
  • Definition: Monthly temperature within the geographic range of a taxon.
  • Attribution: <Kate E. Jones, Jon Bielby, Marcel Cardillo, Susanne A. Fritz, Justin O'Dell, C. David L. Orme, Kamran Safi, Wes Sechrest, Elizabeth H. Boakes, Chris Carbone, Christina Connolly, Michael J. Cutts, Janine K. Foster, Richard Grenyer, Michael Habib, Christopher A. Plaster, Samantha A. Price, Elizabeth A. Rigby, Janna Rist, Amber Teacher, Olaf R. P. Bininda-Emonds, John L. Gittleman, Georgina M. Mace, and Andy Purvis. 2009. PanTHERIA: a species-level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals. Ecology 90:2648. http://esapubs.org/archive/ecol/E090/184/>
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