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carnivora: Carnivora body sizes and life history traits

Description

Dataset adapted from Gittleman (1986), including 2 morphological variables (body and brain sizes), 8 life history traits variables and 4 taxonomic variables.

Usage

data(carnivora)

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 112 observations on 17 variables.

[,1]OrderfactorCarnivora order
[,2]SuperFamilyfactorSuper family (Caniformia or Feliformia)
[,3]FamilyfactorCarnivora family
[,4]GenusfactorCarnivora genus
[,5]SpeciesfactorCarnivora species
[,6]FWnumericFemale body weight (kg)
[,7]SWnumericAverage body weight of adult male and adult female (kg)
[,8]FBnumericFemale brain weight (g)
[,9]SBnumericAverage brain weight of adult male and adult female (g)
[,10]LSnumericLitter size
[,11]GLnumericGestation length (days)
[,12]BWnumericBirth weigth (g)
[,13]WAnumericWeaning age (days)
[,14]AInumericAge of independance (days)
[,15]LYnumericLongevity (months)
[,16]AMnumericAge of sexual maturity (days)
[,17]IBnumericInter-birth interval (months)

Examples

Run this code
data(carnivora)
## Fig. 1 in Gittleman (1986):
plot(carnivora$BW ~ carnivora$FW, pch = (1:8)[carnivora$Family], log = "xy",
     xlab = "Female body weight (kg)", ylab = "Birth weigth (g)",
     ylim = c(1, 2000))
legend("bottomright", legend = levels(carnivora$Family), pch = 1:8)
plot(carnivora$BW ~ carnivora$FB, pch = (1:8)[carnivora$Family], log = "xy",
     xlab = "Female brain weight (g)", ylab = "Birth weigth (g)",
     ylim = c(1, 2000))
legend("bottomright", legend = levels(carnivora$Family), pch = 1:8)

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