AnAge entry for Macropus robustus
Classification (HAGRID: 02534)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Diprotodontia
Family: Macropodidae
Genus: Macropus
- Species
- Macropus robustus
- Common name
- Wallaroo
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 22 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
It has been estimated that they can live up to 24 years in the wild [0522]. Record longevity in captivity, however, is 22 years [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 547 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 670 days
- Gestation
- 32 days
- Weaning
- 351 days
- Litter size
- 1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- Inter-litter interval
- 264 days
- Weight at birth
- 0.703 g
- Weight at weaning
- 2,500 g
- Adult weight
- 30,000 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.0038 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
- Maximum longevity residual
- 93%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 309ºK or 36.1ºC or 97.0ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 33.0560 W
- Body mass
- 29647.9 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.001115 W/g
References
- [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
- [0420] White and Seymour (2003), Mammalian basal metabolic rate is proportional to body mass2/3 (PubMed)
- [0522] Fisher et al. (2001), The ecological basis of life history variation in marsupials
- [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
- [0731] Zullinger et al. (1984), Fitting sigmoid equations to mammalian growth curves
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 552738
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 9319
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