AnAge entry for Hylobates muelleri
Classification (HAGRID: 02798)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Primates (Taxon entry)
Family: Hylobatidae
Genus: Hylobates
- Species
- Hylobates muelleri
- Common name
- Borneo gibbon
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 60 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 1079
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
A wild born male named "Nippy" was about 60 years of age when he died in captivity; possibly he died of a stroke and had multiple signs of ageing at the time of death, including worn teeth, muscle atrophy and degenerative lesions in the liver, kidney and heart [1079].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 2,849 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 1,825 days
- Gestation
- 207 days
- Weaning
- Litter size
- 1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- Inter-litter interval
- 1,080 days
- Weight at birth
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 5,765 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 326%
Metabolism
No information on metabolism is available.
References
- [1308] Myhrvold et al. (2015), An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles
- [0978] Jones et al. (2009), PanTHERIA: a species-level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals
- [1079] Geissmann et al. (2009), Longevity in gibbons (Hylobatidae)
- [0467] Lindenfors (2002), Sexually antagonistic selection on primate size
- [0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World
- [0436] Cutler (1979), Evolution of human longevity: a critical overview (PubMed)
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 573077
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account
- Encyclopaedia of Life
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 9588
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