AnAge entry for Marmota flaviventris
Classification (HAGRID: 03140)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Rodentia
Family: Sciuridae
Genus: Marmota
- Species
- Marmota flaviventris
- Common name
- Yellow-bellied marmot
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 21.2 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Tiny
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
In the wild, these animals live up to 15 years (Ken Armitage, pers. comm.). One captive specimen was still alive after 21.2 years at Utah's Hogle Zoo [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 730 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 730 days
- Gestation
- 30 days
- Weaning
- 33 days
- Litter size
- 4 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 0.9
- Inter-litter interval
- 458 days
- Weight at birth
- 33.8 g
- Weight at weaning
- 479 g
- Adult weight
- 3,500 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 124%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 310ºK or 36.5ºC or 97.7ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 8.6260 W
- Body mass
- 4295.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.002008 W/g
References
- [1150] Jones et al. (2014), Diversity of ageing across the tree of life (PubMed)
- [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)
- [0610] Ernest (2003), Life history characteristics of placental non-volant mammals
- [0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World
- [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
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 180140
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account (if available)
- Encyclopaedia of Life
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 93162
- Entrez
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