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Name:

Body Measurements of Mammal Species

Description:

Body measurements for a sample of 28 mammal species from a Fitch paper on acoustic allometry

Variables:

A data frame with 28 observations on the following 6 variables.

Species: species of mammal
Order: Order (Carnivora or Primates)
Wt: Body weight (in kg)
Skull: Skull length (in cm)
Palate: Palate length (in cm)

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Files:

Body Measurements of Mammal Species_1006_70.csv

License Type:

Public Domain (CC0)

References/Notes/Attributions:

Source

Fitch, W. Tecumseh (2000), "Skull dimensions in relation to body size in nonhuman mammals: The causal bases for acoustic allometry," Zoology, 103, 40-58.

R Dataset Upload:

Use the following R code to directly access this dataset in R.

d <- read.csv("https://www.key2stats.com/Body_Measurements_of_Mammal_Species_1006_70.csv")