Zoo

Donated on 5/14/1990

Artificial, 7 classes of animals

Dataset Characteristics

Multivariate

Subject Area

Biology

Associated Tasks

Classification

Feature Type

Categorical, Integer

# Instances

101

# Features

16

Dataset Information

Additional 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"!)

Has Missing Values?

No

Variables Table

Variable NameRoleTypeDescriptionUnitsMissing Values
animal_nameIDCategoricalno
hairFeatureBinaryno
feathersFeatureBinaryno
eggsFeatureBinaryno
milkFeatureBinaryno
airborneFeatureBinaryno
aquaticFeatureBinaryno
predatorFeatureBinaryno
toothedFeatureBinaryno
backboneFeatureBinaryno

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Additional Variable Information

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])

Class Labels

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

Baseline Model Performance

Dataset Files

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zoo.data4 KB
zoo.names2.5 KB
Index102 Bytes

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Richard Forsyth

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