AnAge entry for Macaca nemestrina
Classification (HAGRID: 02742)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Primates (Taxon entry)
Family: Cercopithecidae
Genus: Macaca
- Species
- Macaca nemestrina
- Common name
- Southern pig-tailed macaque, or Pigtail macaque
- Synonyms
- Macacus brachyurus, Macaca broca, Simia carpolegus, Simia fusca, Macaca libidinosus, Simia longicruris, Pithecus maimon, Simia platypygos, Macaca nemestrina nucifera
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 37.6 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Large
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
- No observations are presently available
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 1,125 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 1,095 days
- Gestation
- 172 days
- Weaning
- 324 days
- Litter size
- 1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 0.8
- Inter-litter interval
- 405 days
- Weight at birth
- 462.5 g
- Weight at weaning
- 1,417 g
- Adult weight
- 7,913 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.0015 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
- Maximum longevity residual
- 194%
Metabolism
No information on metabolism is available.
References
- [0671] Richard Weigl (2005), Longevity of Mammals in Captivity; from the Living Collections of the World
- [0152] Muehlenbein et al. (2003), Dehydroepiandrosterone-sulfate as a biomarker of senescence in male non-human primates (PubMed)
- [0681] Peter Kappeler and Michael Pereira (2003), Primate Life Histories and Socioecology
- [0610] Ernest (2003), Life history characteristics of placental non-volant mammals
- [0467] Lindenfors (2002), Sexually antagonistic selection on primate size
- [0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World
- [0463] Austad (1997), Small nonhuman primates as potential models of human aging (PubMed)
- [0351] Short et al. (1997), Circulating antioxidants as determinants of the rate of biological aging in pigtailed macaques (Macaca nemestrina) (PubMed)
- [0164] Holleschau and Rathbun (1994), The effects of age on glutathione peroxidase and glutathione reductase activities in lenses of Old World simians and prosimians (PubMed)
- [0350] Bowden et al. (1994), Immunologic markers in a longitudinal study of aging in pigtailed macaques (Macaca nemestrina) (PubMed)
- [0455] Virginia Hayssen et al. (1993), Asdell's Patterns of Mammalian Reproduction: A Compendium of Species-Specific Data
- [0349] Williams et al. (1990), Fingernail growth rate as a biomarker of aging in the pigtailed macaque (Macaca nemestrina) (PubMed)
- [0542] Bernhard Grzimek (1990), Grzimek's Encyclopedia of Mammals
- [0348] Short et al. (1989), Ovarian cyclicity, hormones, and behavior as markers of aging in female pigtailed macaques (Macaca nemestrina) (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
- [0731] Zullinger et al. (1984), Fitting sigmoid equations to mammalian growth curves
- [0346] Nandy (1981), Morphological changes in the cerebellar cortex of aging Macaca nemestrina (PubMed)
- [0347] Burns et al. (1979), Thinning of capillary walls and declining numbers of endothelial mitochondria in the cerebral cortex of the aging primate, Macaca nemestrina (PubMed)
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 573021
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- ADW account
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 9545
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