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Lepus capensis (Cape Hare)

Wikipedia Abstract

The Cape hare (Lepus capensis), also called brown hare and desert hare is a hare native to Africa and Arabia extending into India.It is a nocturnal herbivore.
View Wikipedia Record: Lepus capensis

Infraspecies

Lepus capensis aegyptius (Cape hare)
Lepus capensis aquilo
Lepus capensis arabicus
Lepus capensis atlanticus
Lepus capensis capensis (Cape hare)
Lepus capensis carpi
Lepus capensis granti
Lepus capensis hawkeri
Lepus capensis isabellinus
Lepus capensis mediterraneus
Lepus capensis schlumbergeri
Lepus capensis sinaiticus
Lepus capensis whitakeri

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
18
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 6.01
EDGE Score: 1.95
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  5.199 lbs (2.358 kg)
Birth Weight [1]  118 grams
Diet [2]  Herbivore
Diet - Plants [2]  100 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  7 months 18 days
Male Maturity [1]  5 months 25 days
Gestation [1]  43 days
Litter Size [1]  3
Litters / Year [1]  3
Maximum Longevity [3]  9 years
Nocturnal [2]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [3]  22 inches (55 cm)
Weaning [1]  33 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Cape Floristic Region South Africa No
Eastern Afromontane Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zimbabwe No
Horn of Africa Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Oman, Somalia, Yemen No
Mediterranean Basin Algeria, Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Portugal, Spain, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey No
Succulent Karoo Namibia, South Africa No

Predators

Consumers

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
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♦ 3Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
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♦ 9Seasonal diet and numbers of prey consumed by Cape foxes Vulpes chama in South Africa, Unn Klare, Jan F. Kamler and David W. Macdonald, Wildlife Biology 20(3):190-195. 2014
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♦ 11International Flea Database
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Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0