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(Pronounce: Sha Mee Or Sham Wa)

Rupicapra rupicapra (Linnaeus 1758)

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Rupicapra rupicapra ((Pronounce: Sha Mee Or Sham Wa)) is a species of mammals in the family Bovidae. They are native to Greece, Slovakia, Germany, Yugoslavia, Switzerland, Macedonia, Turkey, Georgia, Russia, Poland, Slovenia, Serbia, Italy, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Romania, Austria, France, the Palearctic, Azerbaijan, Montenegro, Bulgaria, Croatia, and Albania. They are solitary herbivores. Individuals are known to live for 264 months. Reproduction is viviparous. They have parental care (female provides care). They rely on running to move around.

URI: http://www.geonames.org/390903

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URI: http://www.geonames.org/3057568

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URI: http://www.geonames.org/2921044

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URI: http://www.geonames.org/7500737

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URI: http://www.geonames.org/2658434

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URI: http://www.geonames.org/718075

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URI: http://www.geonames.org/614540

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URI: http://www.geonames.org/2017370

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URI: http://www.geonames.org/798544

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URI: http://www.geonames.org/3190538

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URI: http://www.geonames.org/6290252

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URI: http://www.geonames.org/3175395

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URI: http://www.geonames.org/3277605

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URI: http://www.geonames.org/798549

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URI: http://www.geonames.org/2782113

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URI: http://www.geonames.org/3017382

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URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q106447
Definition: largest of the eight ecozones constituting the Earth's surface
Attribution: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Palearctic.png

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URI: http://www.geonames.org/587116

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URI: http://www.geonames.org/3194884

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URI: http://www.geonames.org/732800

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URI: http://www.geonames.org/3202326

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URI: http://www.geonames.org/783754

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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://eol.org/schema/terms/solitary
Definition: Solitary animals are those that spend a majority of their lives without others of their species, with possible exceptions for mating and raising their young. Antonyms for a solitary animal include a social animal or a colonial animal.
Attribution: https://www.definitions.net/definition/solitary+animal

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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 (2nd ed.). 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(27):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 61 attributes, including:

age at maturity
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/AgeAtMaturity
- Definition: Age at the first successful reproduction.
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1368.75 days
body shape
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/BodyShape
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bilaterally symmetric
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001324
- Definition: being symmetric about a plane running from frontal end to caudal end (head to tail), and having nearly identical right and left halves
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diet breadth
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/DietBreadth
- Definition: Number of dietary categories eaten by an organism.
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2
diet includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Diet
- Definition: Information about the items eaten by this organism.
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lichen
- URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q43142
- Definition: composite organism that arises from algae or cyanobacteria living among filaments of multiple fungi in a symbiotic relationship
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ecomorphological guild
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/EcomorphologicalGuild
- Definition: organisms that share certain morphological traits due to adaptation to similar environments and ecological roles
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fossorial and/or ground dwelling only
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/groundDwelling
- Definition: An organism that spends most of its time on the ground or underground.
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first appearance
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/FossilFirst
- Definition: The first appearance of this taxon in the fossil record.
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2.588 million years ago
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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742756.9300000001 km^2
habitat breadth
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/HabitatBreadth
- Definition: Number of habitat layers used by an organism
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1
home range
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/HomeRange
- Definition: Size of the area within which everyday activities of individuals or groups (of any type) are typically restricted.
- 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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2.49 km^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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365 days
litters per year
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/LittersPerYear
- Definition: Number of litters per female per year
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1 /year
mating system
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/MatingSystem
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polygynous
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ECOCORE_00000065
- Definition: One male has an exclusive mating relationship with two or more females
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Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of (Pronounce: Sha-mee or Sham-wa). View this species on GBIF

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(Pronounce: Sha-mee or Sham-wa) includes 5 children: