AnAge entry for Erythrocebus patas
Classification (HAGRID: 02734)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Primates (Taxon entry)
Family: Cercopithecidae
Genus: Erythrocebus
- Species
- Erythrocebus patas
- Common name
- Patas monkey
- Synonyms
- Cercopithecus circumcinctus, Cercopithecus kerstingi, Erythrocebus langheldi, Simia rubra, Simia rufa, Erythrocebus whitei, Erythrocebus zechi, Cercopithecus patas sannio, Simia ruber albo-fasciatus, Cercopithecus patas albosignatus, Simia ruber nigro-fasciatus, Cercopithecus patas poliomystax, Simia ruber nigrofasciatus, Simia ruber albofasciatus
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 30 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 1306
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
One zoo specimen lived for 30 years [1306].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 956 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 1,400 days
- Gestation
- 167 days
- Weaning
- 162 days
- Litter size
- 1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1
- Inter-litter interval
- 357 days
- Weight at birth
- 504.5 g
- Weight at weaning
- 1,950 g
- Adult weight
- 7,750 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 156%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 312ºK or 39.3ºC or 102.7ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 5.9580 W
- Body mass
- 3000.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.001986 W/g
References
- [1306] Peron et al. (2019), Variation in actuarial senescence does not reflect life span variation across mammals (PubMed)
- [0671] Richard Weigl (2005), Longevity of Mammals in Captivity; from the Living Collections of the World
- [0036] Savage et al. (2004), The predominance of quarter-power scaling in biology
- [0420] White and Seymour (2003), Mammalian basal metabolic rate is proportional to body mass2/3 (PubMed)
- [0681] Peter Kappeler and Michael Pereira (2003), Primate Life Histories and Socioecology
- [0195] Page et al. (2002), Morphological alterations in neurons forming corticocortical projections in the neocortex of aged Patas monkeys (PubMed)
- [0467] Lindenfors (2002), Sexually antagonistic selection on primate size
- [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
- [0680] Wootton (1987), The effects of body mass, phylogeny, habitat, and trophic level on mammalian age at first reproduction
- [0679] Harvey and Clutton-Brock (1985), Life-history variation in primates
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 573015
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 9538
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