AnAge entry for Hydropotes inermis
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Cervidae (Taxon entry)
Genus: Hydropotes
- Species
- Hydropotes inermis
- Common name
- Chinese water deer
- Maximum longevity
- 13.9 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Large
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
- No observations are presently available
- Female sexual maturity
- 183 days
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- 190 days
- Weaning
- Litter size
- 2.7 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- 1,042 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 11,500 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 68%
- Typical body temperature
- 311ºK or 38.3ºC or 100.9ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- Not yet available
- [1034] Bouts et al. (2011), Evaluation of medetomidine-ketamine and dexmedetomidine-ketamine in Chinese water deer (Hydropotes inermis) (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
- [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
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- ITIS 625054
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- Taxonomy ID 9883
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