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Xerus princeps (Damara ground squirrel)

Synonyms: Geosciurus princeps (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

The mountain ground squirrel (Xerus princeps) is a rodent that is native to southwestern Angola, western Namibia, and western South Africa. It is also known as the Kaoko ground squirrel or the Damara ground squirrel.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
6
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
29
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 13.2
EDGE Score: 2.65
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  1.402 lbs (636 g)
Male Weight [3]  1.316 lbs (597 g)
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  20 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  10 %
Diet - Plants [2]  20 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  30 %
Diet - Vertibrates [2]  20 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Gestation [1]  46 days
Litter Size [1]  2
Snout to Vent Length [3]  18 inches (46 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Namib desert Namibia Afrotropic Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Namibian savanna woodlands Angola, Namibia Afrotropic Deserts and Xeric Shrublands

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Namib-Naukluft National Park II 12585619 Namibia  

Prey / Diet

Colophospermum mopane (Butterfly Tree)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Tragelaphus strepsiceros (greater kudu)1

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Ctenocephalides connatus[1]
Linognathoides faurei[4]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Xerus princeps, Jane M. Waterman and Matthew D. Herron, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 751, pp. 1–3 (2004)
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 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
♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
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