1. Title: Zoo database 2. Source Information -- Creator: Richard Forsyth -- Donor: Richard S. Forsyth 8 Grosvenor Avenue Mapperley Park Nottingham NG3 5DX 0602-621676 -- Date: 5/15/1990 3. Past Usage: -- None known other than what is shown in Forsyth's PC/BEAGLE User's Guide. 4. Relevant Information: -- A simple database containing 17 Boolean-valued attributes. The "type" attribute appears to be the class attribute. Here is a breakdown of which animals are in which type: (I find it unusual that there are 2 instances of "frog" and one of "girl"!) Class# Set of animals: ====== =============================================================== 1 (41) aardvark, antelope, bear, boar, buffalo, calf, cavy, cheetah, deer, dolphin, elephant, fruitbat, giraffe, girl, goat, gorilla, hamster, hare, leopard, lion, lynx, mink, mole, mongoose, opossum, oryx, platypus, polecat, pony, porpoise, puma, pussycat, raccoon, reindeer, seal, sealion, squirrel, vampire, vole, wallaby,wolf 2 (20) chicken, crow, dove, duck, flamingo, gull, hawk, kiwi, lark, ostrich, parakeet, penguin, pheasant, rhea, skimmer, skua, sparrow, swan, vulture, wren 3 (5) pitviper, seasnake, slowworm, tortoise, tuatara 4 (13) bass, carp, catfish, chub, dogfish, haddock, herring, pike, piranha, seahorse, sole, stingray, tuna 5 (4) frog, frog, newt, toad 6 (8) flea, gnat, honeybee, housefly, ladybird, moth, termite, wasp 7 (10) clam, crab, crayfish, lobster, octopus, scorpion, seawasp, slug, starfish, worm 5. Number of Instances: 101 6. Number of Attributes: 18 (animal name, 15 Boolean attributes, 2 numerics) 7. Attribute Information: (name of attribute and type of value domain) 1. animal name: Unique for each instance 2. hair Boolean 3. feathers Boolean 4. eggs Boolean 5. milk Boolean 6. airborne Boolean 7. aquatic Boolean 8. predator Boolean 9. toothed Boolean 10. backbone Boolean 11. breathes Boolean 12. venomous Boolean 13. fins Boolean 14. legs Numeric (set of values: {0,2,4,5,6,8}) 15. tail Boolean 16. domestic Boolean 17. catsize Boolean 18. type Numeric (integer values in range [1,7]) 8. Missing Attribute Values: None 9. Class Distribution: Given above