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  • From: Bear Kaufmann <bear@ursine-design.com>
  • To: pcdb <pcdb@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [pcdb] Animal Diversity Web
  • Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 20:13:12 -0700

Hi,

The Animal Diversity Web may provide a bit of inspiration for the project. For example, see the article on the domestic goat:
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/ Capra_hircus.html

It might be useful to consider how this data could be incorporated into the database (esp. Primary Diet, Biogeographic Regions, etc) and look into the rights.

Here are what you might call grouped tags (or if you're feeling less Web 2.0: keywords) for the goat:
Biogeographic Regions:
nearctic

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(introduced

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); palearctic

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(native

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); oriental

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(introduced

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); ethiopian

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(introduced

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); neotropical

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(introduced

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); australian

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(introduced

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); oceanic islands

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(introduced

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).

Other Geographic Terms:
cosmopolitan

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.

These animals are found in the following types of habitat:
temperate

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; tropical

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; terrestrial

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.

Terrestrial Biomes:
taiga

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; desert or dune

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; savanna or grassland

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; chaparral

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; forest

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; rainforest

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; scrub forest

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; mountains

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.

Other:
agricultural

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.

Some key physical features:
endothermic

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; homoiothermic; bilateral symmetry

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.

Sexual dimorphism:

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male larger, ornamentation

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.

Mating systems:
polygynous

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.

Key reproductive features:
iteroparous

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; seasonal breeding

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; gonochoric/gonochoristic/dioecious (sexes separate); sexual

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; induced ovulation

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; fertilization

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; viviparous

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.

Parental investment:
no parental involvement; precocial

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; female parental care

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; pre-fertilization (protecting: female); pre-hatching/birth (provisioning: female, protecting: female); pre-weaning/fledging (provisioning: female, protecting: female); post-independence association with parents.

Key behaviors:
terricolous; diurnal

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; motile

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; sedentary

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; social

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; dominance hierarchies

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.

Communicates with:
visual

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; tactile

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; acoustic

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; chemical

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.

Other communication keywords:
pheromones

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.

Perception channels:
visual

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; tactile

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; acoustic

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; chemical

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.

Primary Diet:
herbivore

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(folivore

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).

Plant Foods:
leaves.

Ways that these animals might be a problem for humans:
causes or carries domestic animal disease

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.

Ways that people benefit from these animals:
pet trade

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; food

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; body parts are source of valuable material.

Cheers,

Bear

  • [pcdb] Animal Diversity Web, Bear Kaufmann, 04/03/2007

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