AnAge entry for Orycteropus afer
Classification (HAGRID: 03242)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Tubulidentata
Family: Orycteropodidae
Genus: Orycteropus
- Species
- Orycteropus afer
- Common name
- Aardvark
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 29.8 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
One captive specimen lived for 29.8 years [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 730 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 730 days
- Gestation
- 225 days
- Weaning
- 103 days
- Litter size
- 1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1
- Inter-litter interval
- 365 days
- Weight at birth
- 1,800 g
- Weight at weaning
- 6,250 g
- Adult weight
- 60,000 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.0094 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
- Maximum longevity residual
- 113%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 308ºK or 34.5ºC or 94.1ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 34.2750 W
- Body mass
- 48000.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.000714 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)
- [0610] Ernest (2003), Life history characteristics of placental non-volant mammals
- [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 584927
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- ADW account
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 9818
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