AnAge entry for Canis aureus
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Carnivora
Family: Canidae
Genus: Canis
- Species
- Canis aureus
- Common name
- Golden jackal
- Maximum longevity
- 18.8 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
- No observations are presently available
- Female sexual maturity
- 334 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 334 days
- Gestation
- 63 days
- Weaning
- 75 days
- Litter size
- 3 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1
- Inter-litter interval
- 365 days
- Weight at birth
- 207.5 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 11,000 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 92%
- Typical body temperature
- 312ºK or 38.8ºC or 101.8ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- Not yet available
- [1033] King et al. (2008), Field anesthesia of golden jackals (Canis aureus) with the use of medetomidine-ketamine or medetomidine-midazolam with atipamezole reversal (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
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- ITIS 183817
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- Taxonomy ID 68724
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