AnAge entry for Lynx rufus
Classification (HAGRID: 02125)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Carnivora
Family: Felidae
Genus: Lynx
- Species
- Lynx rufus
- Common name
- Bobcat
- Synonyms
- Felis rufus
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 32.3 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
One specimen lived 32.3 years in captivity [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 365 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 730 days
- Gestation
- 65 days
- Weaning
- 65 days
- Litter size
- 3 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 0.9
- Inter-litter interval
- 365 days
- Weight at birth
- 265 g
- Weight at weaning
- 1,190 g
- Adult weight
- 8,600 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.0068 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
- Maximum longevity residual
- 165%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- Not yet available
- Basal metabolic rate
- 23.4460 W
- Body mass
- 9400.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.002494 W/g
References
- [0817] Bielby et al. (2007), The fast-slow continuum in mammalian life history: an empirical reevaluation (PubMed)
- [1142] Kohler et al. (2006), Comparative mortality levels among selected species of captive animals
- [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
- [0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World
- [0538] Don Wilson and Sue Ruff (1999), The Smithsonian Book of North American Mammals
- [0676] Purvis and Harvey (1995), Mammal life-history evolution: a comparative test of Charnov's model
- [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
- [0731] Zullinger et al. (1984), Fitting sigmoid equations to mammalian growth curves
External Resources
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- ITIS 180582
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- Taxonomy ID 61384
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