AnAge entry for Aepyceros melampus
Classification (HAGRID: 01897)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Genus: Aepyceros
- Species
- Aepyceros melampus
- Common name
- Impala
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 25.6 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Large
- Data quality
- High
- Observations
One captive specimen lived at least 25.6 [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 456 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 395 days
- Gestation
- 198 days
- Weaning
- 167 days
- Litter size
- 1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1
- Inter-litter interval
- 365 days
- Weight at birth
- 5,550 g
- Weight at weaning
- 15,900 g
- Adult weight
- 52,500 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.0043 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
- Maximum longevity residual
- 99%
Metabolism
No information on metabolism is available.
References
- [1135] Lemaitre et al. (2013), Comparing free-ranging and captive populations reveals intra-specific variation in aging rates in large herbivores (PubMed)
- [0671] Richard Weigl (2005), Longevity of Mammals in Captivity; from the Living Collections of the World
- [0610] Ernest (2003), Life history characteristics of placental non-volant mammals
- [0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World
- [0676] Purvis and Harvey (1995), Mammal life-history evolution: a comparative test of Charnov's model
- [0677] Saether and Gordon (1994), The adaptive significance of reproductive strategies in ungulates (PubMed)
- [0455] Virginia Hayssen et al. (1993), Asdell's Patterns of Mammalian Reproduction: A Compendium of Species-Specific Data
- [0680] Wootton (1987), The effects of body mass, phylogeny, habitat, and trophic level on mammalian age at first reproduction
- [0731] Zullinger et al. (1984), Fitting sigmoid equations to mammalian growth curves
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 625076
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 9897
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