AnAge entry for Pecari tajacu
Classification (HAGRID: 02063)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Tayassuidae
Genus: Pecari
- Species
- Pecari tajacu
- Common name
- Collared peccary
- Synonyms
- Tayassu tajacu
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 31.5 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Large
- Data quality
- High
- Observations
One captive specimen was still alive at 31.5 years of age [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 329 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 358 days
- Gestation
- 145 days
- Weaning
- 49 days
- Litter size
- 2 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 2
- Inter-litter interval
- 155 days
- Weight at birth
- 700 g
- Weight at weaning
- 4,881 g
- Adult weight
- 20,200 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 141%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 311ºK or 37.5ºC or 99.5ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 33.1650 W
- Body mass
- 20500.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.001618 W/g
References
- [0978] Jones et al. (2009), PanTHERIA: a species-level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals
- [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 552761
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- Taxonomy ID 9829
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