AnAge entry for Macaca fuscata
Classification (HAGRID: 02739)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Primates (Taxon entry)
Family: Cercopithecidae
Genus: Macaca
- Species
- Macaca fuscata
- Common name
- Japanese macaque
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 38.5 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Large
- Data quality
- High
- Observations
In captivity, these animals have been reported to live up to 38.5 years [0671]. Females appear to exhibit reproductive senescence and cease reproducing at about age 25 [0976]. A child Japanese monkey appeared to display signs of progeria without possessing any of the individual mutations responsible for major progeroid syndromes in humans. This monkey was the first primate model with sporadic symptoms of premature ageing [1195]. It has been observed that, in some cases and similarly to other monkeys, aged females engage in fewer social interactions [1313].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 1,483 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 1,369 days
- Gestation
- 174 days
- Weaning
- Litter size
- 1.5 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 0.5
- Inter-litter interval
- 514 days
- Weight at birth
- 496 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 8,883 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 196%
Metabolism
No information on metabolism is available.
References
- [1313] Fischer (2017), On the Social Life and Motivational Changes of Aging Monkeys (PubMed)
- [1195] Oishi et al. (2014), Sporadic premature aging in a Japanese monkey: a primate model for progeria (PubMed)
- [1143] Nussey et al. (2013), Senescence in natural populations of animals: widespread evidence and its implications for bio-gerontology (PubMed)
- [0671] Richard Weigl (2005), Longevity of Mammals in Captivity; from the Living Collections of the World
- [0976] Cohen (2004), Female post-reproductive lifespan: a general mammalian trait (PubMed)
- [0269] Nakamichi (2003), Age-related differences in social grooming among adult female Japanese monkeys ( Macaca fuscata) (PubMed)
- [0095] Shimizu et al. (2003), In vitro aging of macaque adherent cells: similar pattern of cellular aging between human and macaque (PubMed)
- [0610] Ernest (2003), Life history characteristics of placental non-volant mammals
- [0681] Peter Kappeler and Michael Pereira (2003), Primate Life Histories and Socioecology
- [0467] Lindenfors (2002), Sexually antagonistic selection on primate size
- [0271] Suzuki and Ishida (2001), Age changes in plasma IGF-1 concentration in free-ranging Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) (PubMed)
- [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
- [0270] Nakano et al. (1989), Age-related accumulation of lipofuscin in myocardium of Japanese monkey (Macaca fuscata) (PubMed)
- [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
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- ITIS 555659
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- Taxonomy ID 9542
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