AnAge entry for Marmota monax
Classification (HAGRID: 03142)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Rodentia
Family: Sciuridae
Genus: Marmota
- Species
- Marmota monax
- Common name
- Woodchuck
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 14 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
Record longevity in captivity is 14 years [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 548 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 548 days
- Gestation
- 32 days
- Weaning
- 46 days
- Litter size
- 4.5 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- 27 g
- Weight at weaning
- 248 g
- Adult weight
- 4,000 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 80%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 310ºK or 37.0ºC or 98.6ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 3.6960 W
- Body mass
- 2650.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.001395 W/g
References
- [0776] Seluanov et al. (2007), Telomerase activity coevolves with body mass not lifespan (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)
- [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
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 180137
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account (if available)
- Encyclopaedia of Life
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 9995
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