4 \title{Carnivora body sizes and life history traits}
6 Dataset adapted from Gittleman (1986), including 2 morphological variables (body and brain sizes), 8 life history traits variables and 4 taxonomic variables.
8 \usage{data(carnivora)}
10 A data frame with 112 observations on 17 variables.
13 [,1] \tab Order \tab factor \tab Carnivora order \cr
14 [,2] \tab SuperFamily \tab factor \tab Super family (Caniformia or Feliformia) \cr
15 [,3] \tab Family \tab factor \tab Carnivora family \cr
16 [,4] \tab Genus \tab factor \tab Carnivora genus \cr
17 [,5] \tab Species \tab factor \tab Carnivora species \cr
18 [,6] \tab FW \tab numeric \tab Female body weight (kg) \cr
19 [,7] \tab SW \tab numeric \tab Average body weight of adult male and adult female (kg) \cr
20 [,8] \tab FB \tab numeric \tab Female brain weight (g) \cr
21 [,9] \tab SB \tab numeric \tab Average brain weight of adult male and adult female (g) \cr
22 [,10] \tab LS \tab numeric \tab Litter size \cr
23 [,11] \tab GL \tab numeric \tab Gestation length (days) \cr
24 [,12] \tab BW \tab numeric \tab Birth weigth (g) \cr
25 [,13] \tab WA \tab numeric \tab Weaning age (days) \cr
26 [,14] \tab AI \tab numeric \tab Age of independance (days) \cr
27 [,15] \tab LY \tab numeric \tab Longevity (months) \cr
28 [,16] \tab AM \tab numeric \tab Age of sexual maturity (days) \cr
29 [,17] \tab IB \tab numeric \tab Inter-birth interval (months) \cr
33 Gittleman, J. L. (1986) Carnivore life history patterns: allometric,
34 phylogenetic and ecological associations. \emph{American Naturalist},
39 # This is figure 1 of Gittleman 1986:
41 trellis.device(color=FALSE)
42 xyplot(BW ~ FW, groups=Family, data=carnivora, auto.key=TRUE, xlog=TRUE,
43 scale=list(log=TRUE), ylim=c(1, 2000))
44 trellis.device(color=FALSE)
45 xyplot(BW ~ FB, groups=Family, data=carnivora, auto.key=TRUE, xlog=TRUE,
46 scale=list(log=TRUE), ylim=c(1, 2000))