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Pedetes capensis |
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Ličvre sauteur |
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Springhare |
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| Kakuyu (Kikaonde); kakuyu (Lunda) ; kamendegere (Kiswahili) | |
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Length: 80 cm (with 40 cm of tail); weight: 3 kg. Hindlegs are long and powerful, forelegs are short, conferring it the appearance of a kangaroo. Front feet have 5 long and curved claws used to dig. Hind feet have 4 large and triangular claws. Pelage is long, yellowish or reddish buff above and beige or off-white below. Tail is long, bushy and has a broad, black and bushy tip. Head is small; ears are quite long and pointed. Eyes are large. |
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Mainly sandy soils. |
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Nocturnal. During the day, rest in burrows that they dig themselves. These burrows can reach up to 46 m long with many entrances. Each burrow is occupied by one individual or by a female and its young. They move quickly by jumping on their hindlegs. |
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Bulbs, roots, seeds and shoots. Sometimes damage maize and groundnuts’ crops. |
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After about 75 days of gestation, females give birth to a young. It gets out of the burrow after 6 or 7 weeks.
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Warning :
This database was established according to official pieces of work and with the help of famous scientists. However, there might be some errors.
The vernacular names were collected in the field and in the colonial literature from the first part of the 20th century. The monks who established the first dictionaries were not necessarily informed naturalists. Therefore, errors must have been committed.
We invite everyone who could help us to improve this working tool to contact us in order to correct us and share her/his knowledge with us.
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