AnAge entry for Neophron percnopterus
Classification (HAGRID: 00271)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves (Taxon entry)
Order: Accipitriformes
Family: Accipitridae
Genus: Neophron
- Species
- Neophron percnopterus
- Common name
- Egyptian vulture
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 37 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 1
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
- No observations are presently available
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 1,817 days
- Male sexual maturity
- Incubation
- Clutch size
- (oviparous)
- Clutches per year
- Weight at hatching
- Adult weight
- 2,082 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.102 days-1 (from logistic function)
Metabolism
No information on metabolism is available.
References
- [1278] Sanz-Aguilar et al. (2017), Sex- and age-dependent patterns of survival and breeding success in a long-lived endangered avian scavenger (PubMed)
- [1308] Myhrvold et al. (2015), An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles
- [0820] John Dunning (2008), CRC Handbook of Avian Body Masses
- [0001] Carey and Judge (2000), Longevity Records: Life Spans of Mammals, Birds, Amphibians, Reptiles, and Fish
- [0732] Starck and Ricklefs (1998), Avian growth rate data set
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 175481
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account
- Encyclopaedia of Life
- Search EOL
- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 33608
- Entrez
- Search all databases
- Ageing Literature
- Search Google Scholar or Search PubMed
- Images
- Google Image search
- Internet
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