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URI:
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Definition:
animal behavior characterized by activity during the day, with a period of inactivity at night.
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http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001324
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being symmetric about a plane running from frontal end to caudal end (head to tail), and having nearly identical right and left halves
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subphylum of arthropods
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phylum of invertebrate animals
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fish
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https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q152
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vertebrate animal that lives in water and (typically) has gills
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ice cap
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A dome-shaped ice mass that covers less than 50,000 km2 of land area (usually covering a highland area).
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Living at the bottom of a body of water.
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has sexual dimorphism
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female larger
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Auto-added during harvest #67. A human needs to edit this.
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Fairbairn
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swimming
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Definition:
Self-propelled movement of an organism from one location to another through water, often by means of active fin movement.
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promiscuous
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http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ECOCORE_00000067
Definition:
A member of one sex mates with any member of the opposite sex
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http://eol.org/schema/terms/migratory
Definition:
makes regular daily or seasonal movements between different regions or habitats
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http://eol.org/schema/terms/activelyMobile
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uses self-propelled locomotion to change location on a regular basis
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Arctic Ocean
URI:
http://www.marineregions.org/mrgid/1906
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The Nearctic
URI:
https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q737742
Definition:
one of the eight terrestrial ecozones constituting the Earth's land surface
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ecozone_Nearctic.svg
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the Palearctic
URI:
https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q106447
Definition:
largest of the eight ecozones constituting the Earth's surface
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Palearctic.png
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provisioning
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https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2874419
Definition:
supplying materials, especially food
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protection
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https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2251595
Definition:
action or precaution against a threat against an uncertainty or possible unpleasant events
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female provides care
URI:
http://eol.org/schema/terms/parentalCareFemale
Definition:
the female feeds and nurtures offspring
Attribution:
Richard M. Sibly, Christopher C. Witt, Natalie A. Wright, Chris Venditti, Walter Jetz, and James H. Brown. 2012. Energetics, lifestyle, and reproduction in birds. PNAS 109(27):10937-10941, doi:10.1073/pnas.1206512109
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solitary
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http://eol.org/schema/terms/solitary
Definition:
Solitary animals are those that spend a majority of their lives without others of their species, with possible exceptions for mating and raising their young. Antonyms for a solitary animal include a social animal or a colonial animal.
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carnivore
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https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q81875
Definition:
organism that eats mostly or exclusively animal tissue
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Crustacean body sizes
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piscivore
URI:
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1420208
Definition:
carnivorous animal which eats primarily fish.
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molluscivore
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https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3319613
Definition:
carnivorous animal that specialises in feeding on molluscs
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