Paraxerus cepapi
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Paraxerus cepapi |
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Paraxerus cepapi quotus |
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Ecureuil de Smith |
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Tree Squirrel, Yellow footed squirrel, Smith's Bush Squirrel |
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| Katense (Kitabwa); Luyeye, kankulunkulu (Kikaonde); Ulupale (Kilamba) ; akapale, kapale, lufwinyemba (Kibemba) ; Kiponabuku, Kapale, Kampanda, kilolo (Kiluba) | |
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Length: about 35 cm (with a tail of 16 cm); weight: between 100 and 260 g. Pelage is yellowish-brown, dark olive green or grey above and is lighter below. Legs are yellowish. Tail is long and bushy. |
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Wooded savannah. |
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Diurnal. Forages in trees as well as on the ground. At night, rests in tree-holes. Lives in groups composed of one or two adult males, a few females and their young. Members of a group groom one another, sleep together and mark each other with their anal secretions. Males actively defend their territories. Alarm call is a high-pitched whistle. |
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Seeds, berries, flowers, bark, acacia gum, grass and insects.
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After 57 days of gestation, females give birth to a litter of 1 to 3 young.
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Warning :
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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.
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