MammalBase - Accepted taxon: Meles meles

Accepted taxon: Meles meles
Taxon:	Meles meles
Rank:	Species
Higher Classification:	CARNIVORA \| CANIFORMIA \| Mustelidae \| Mustelinae \| Meles
Reference:	Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds. Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), JHU Press, 2005.

Fig.1 - Ternary plot of the proximate analysis for the Meles meles diet.
CF (Crude Fibre) 4, ASH (Ash contents) 10, NFE (Nitrogen-Free-Extract) 22, CP (Crude Protein) 52, EE (Ether Extract) 13. See details for the calculations in Lintulaakso, K., Tatti, N. and Žliobaitė, I., 2022. Quantifying mammalian diets. Mammalian Biology, pp.1-15. [DOI]

Table 1. List of Diet Items for Meles meles.
TSN Complete name	Part	Ratio ^a.	Reference(s)
Oligochaeta	WHOLE	40.00	Grzimek,B…
Insecta	WHOLE	7.80	Grzimek,B…
Gastropoda	WHOLE	5.93	Grzimek,B…
Magnoliopsida	FRUIT	5.36	Grzimek,B…
Magnoliopsida	SEED	4.84	Grzimek,B…
Rodentia	WHOLE	4.44	Grzimek,B…
Mammalia	WHOLE	3.70	Nowak,R. …
Erinaceidae	WHOLE	3.70	Grzimek,B…
Aves	WHOLE	3.49	Nowak,R. …
Reptilia	WHOLE	3.27	Nowak,R. …
Anura	WHOLE	3.05	Nowak,R. …
Mollusca	WHOLE	2.83	Nowak,R. …
Apoidea	LARVAE	2.40	Nowak,R. …
Vespidae	LARVAE	2.18	Nowak,R. …
Vertebrata	CARRION	1.96	Nowak,R. …
Magnoliopsida	ROOT	1.83	Grzimek,B…
Fungi	SHOOT	1.70	Grzimek,B…
Fagaceae	SEED	1.53	Nowak,R. …

^a. Standardized values. See details for the calculations in Lintulaakso, K., Tatti, N. and Žliobaitė, I., 2022. Quantifying mammalian diets. Mammalian Biology, pp.1-15. [DOI]

Table 2. List of Standard Traits for Meles meles.
Trait	Selected Value	All Value(s)	Reference(s)
Dietary category: Eisenberg 1981	Insectivore	Frugivore-omnivore,Insectivore	Brian K. …
Dietary category: Miljutin 2009	Frugivore	Animalivore,Frugivore	A. R. Fri…
Locomotion: Eisenberg 1981	Terrestrial	Terrestrial	John L. G…
Temporal habits	nocturnal and crepuscular	nocturnal and crepuscular	John L. G…

Table 3. List of Standard Measurements for Meles meles.
Measurement	Location	Unit	n Total	n Unknown	n Female	n Male	Min	Mean	Max	SD	Reference(s)
Body Mass (BM)	nan	g	1	1	-	-	-	12,000	-	-	Engelman,…
Body Mass (BM)	nan	g	-	-	-	-	5,000	-	34,000	-	Freudenth…
Body Mass (BM)	nan	g	-	-	-	-	-	11,884	-	-	Juhn, M.,…
Head-Body Length (HBL)	nan	mm	2	2	-	-	-	668.5	-	-	Engelman,…
Occipital condyle width (OCW)	nan	mm	1	1	-	-	-	32.26	-	-	Engelman,…

Table 4. List of other Measurements ^b. for Meles meles.
Measurement	Location	Unit	n Total	n Unknown	n Female	n Male	Min	Mean	Max	SD	Reference(s)
OPD (l)		n/a	2	2	-	-	-	55	-	-	Evans, Al…
OPD (u)		n/a	2	2	-	-	-	59	-	-	Evans, Al…
brainmass	nan	g	-	-	-	-	-	46	-	-	Engelman,…
skull_length	nan	mm	-	-	-	-	-	130	-	-	Engelman,…
BMR (kJ/h)	nan	kJ/h	-	-	-	-	-	60	-	-	McNab, B.…
femur circumference	nan	mm	-	-	-	-	-	28	-	-	Nelson, A…
femur diameter	nan	mm	-	-	-	-	-	9	-	-	Nelson, A…
humerus circumference	nan	mm	-	-	-	-	-	34	-	-	Nelson, A…
humerus diameter	nan	mm	-	-	-	-	-	9	-	-	Nelson, A…
neck length	nan	mm	-	-	-	-	-	98	-	-	Nelson, A…
relative blade length (RBL)	nan	unitless	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	Juhn, M.S…

^b. other Measurements. Source Measurements which are not listed on or mapped with the Standard Traits..

Table 5. List of Data Sources for Meles meles.
Taxon	Reference	Match	Status
Meles meles	McNab,B. K., 1986, The influence of food habits on the energetics of eutherian mammals, Ecological Monographs	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Meles meles	Gittleman,J. L., 1985, Carnivore body size: ecological and taxonomic correlates, Oecologia	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Meles meles	Friscia,AR, 2006, An ecomorphological analysis of extant small carnivorans, Journal of zoology	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Meles meles	Evans, Alistair R., Gregory P. Wilson, Mikael Fortelius, and Jukka Jernvall. Ã¢â‚¬Å“High-Level Similarity of Dentitions in Carnivorans and Rodents.Ã¢â‚¬Â Nature 445, no. 7123 (December 13, 2006): 78Ã¢â‚¬â€œ81. doi:10.1038/nature05433.	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Meles meles	Nowak,R. M., 1991, Walker's mammals of the world,	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Meles meles	Grzimek,B., 2003, Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia: Mammals I-V,	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Meles meles	Nowak,R. M., 1991, Walker's mammals of the world,	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Meles meles	Law, C.J., Blackwell, E.A., Curtis, A.A., Dickinson, E., Hartstone‐Rose, A. and Santana, S.E., 2022. Decoupled evolution of the cranium and mandible in carnivoran mammals. Evolution.	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Meles meles	Engelman, R.K., 2022. Occipital condyle width (OCW) is a highly accurate predictor of body mass in therian mammals. BMC biology, 20(1), p.37.	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Meles meles	DeMers, A.C., 2023. Functional Significance of the Mandible, Tooth Roots, and Tooth Crowns, and their Implications for Fossil Dietary Inference (Doctoral dissertation, The Ohio State University).	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Meles meles	McNab, B.K., 2008. An analysis of the factors that influence the level and scaling of mammalian BMR. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology, 151(1), pp.5-28.	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Meles meles	Nelson, A., Engelman, R.K. and Croft, D.A., 2023. How to weigh a fossil mammal? South American notoungulates as a case study for estimating body mass in extinct clades. Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 30(3), pp.773-809.	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Meles meles	Freudenthal, M. and Martín-Suárez, E., 2013. Estimating body mass of fossil rodents. Scripta Geologica, 145, pp.1-513.	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Meles meles	Juhn, M.S., Balisi, M.A., Doughty, E.M., Friscia, A.R., Howenstine, A.O., Jacquemetton, C., Marcot, J., Nugen, S. and Van Valkenburgh, B., 2024. Cenozoic climate change and the evolution of North American mammalian predator ecomorphology. Paleobiology, pp.1-10.	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted

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