AnAge entry for Antidorcas marsupialis
Classification (HAGRID: 01901)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Genus: Antidorcas
- Species
- Antidorcas marsupialis
- Common name
- Springbok
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 19.8 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Large
- Data quality
- High
- Observations
In the wild, these animals live on average less than 10 years, though it has been speculated that they may live up to 20 years [0542]. Record longevity in captivity is 19.8 years [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 213 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 400 days
- Gestation
- 168 days
- Weaning
- 121 days
- Litter size
- 1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1
- Inter-litter interval
- 365 days
- Weight at birth
- 4,160 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 39,000 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.0137 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
- Maximum longevity residual
- 80%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 313ºK or 39.4ºC or 102.9ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- Not yet available
References
- [1016] Fuller et al. (2005), A year in the thermal life of a free-ranging herd of springbok Antidorcas marsupialis (PubMed)
- [0671] Richard Weigl (2005), Longevity of Mammals in Captivity; from the Living Collections of the World
- [0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World
- [0455] Virginia Hayssen et al. (1993), Asdell's Patterns of Mammalian Reproduction: A Compendium of Species-Specific Data
- [0542] Bernhard Grzimek (1990), Grzimek's Encyclopedia of Mammals
- [0731] Zullinger et al. (1984), Fitting sigmoid equations to mammalian growth curves
- [0448] Woodland Park Zoo
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- ITIS 625085
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- Taxonomy ID 59523
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