AnAge entry for Felis silvestris
Classification (HAGRID: 02114)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Carnivora
Family: Felidae
Genus: Felis
- Species
- Felis silvestris
- Common name
- Wild cat
- Synonyms
- Felis lybica
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 19 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
Wild cats live up to 16 years. Some estimates suggest they may live up to 18 years in the wild [0542], but these are unverified. One wild born female of the /lybica/ subspecies was about 19 years old when she died in captivity [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 304 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 304 days
- Gestation
- 64 days
- Weaning
- 87 days
- Litter size
- 3.7 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 2.3
- Inter-litter interval
- 114 days
- Weight at birth
- 100 g
- Weight at weaning
- 643 g
- Adult weight
- 5,500 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.0113 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
- Maximum longevity residual
- 104%
Metabolism
No information on metabolism is available.
References
- [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
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 180589
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 9683
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