AnAge entry for Mandrillus sphinx
Classification (HAGRID: 02752)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Primates (Taxon entry)
Family: Cercopithecidae
Genus: Mandrillus
- Species
- Mandrillus sphinx
- Common name
- Mandrill
- Synonyms
- Maimon burlacei, Mandrillus escherichi, Mandrillus hagenbecki, Mandrillus insularis, Simia latidens, Simia madarogaster, Simia maimon, Simia mormon, Simia pennanti, Papio planirostris, Mandrillus schreberi, Simia suilla, Mandrillus tessmanni, Mandrillus zenkeri, Mandrillus zenkeri ebolowae
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 40 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Large
- Data quality
- High
- Observations
There have been claims of animals living up to 46.3 years [0422], which is not impossible but has not been verified either. In captivity, the record longevity of this species belongs to one female that was still alive at age 40 [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 1,186 days
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- 173 days
- Weaning
- 354 days
- Litter size
- 1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 0.8
- Inter-litter interval
- 532 days
- Weight at birth
- 613 g
- Weight at weaning
- 3,000 g
- Adult weight
- 23,000 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 176%
Metabolism
No information on metabolism is available.
References
- [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
- [0681] Peter Kappeler and Michael Pereira (2003), Primate Life Histories and Socioecology
- [0467] Lindenfors (2002), Sexually antagonistic selection on primate size
- [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
- [0679] Harvey and Clutton-Brock (1985), Life-history variation in primates
- [0422] Primate Info Net
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 573031
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account (if available)
- Encyclopaedia of Life
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 9561
- Entrez
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- Ageing Literature
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- Images
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