AnAge entry for Propithecus verreauxi
Classification (HAGRID: 02805)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Primates (Taxon entry)
Family: Indriidae
Genus: Propithecus
- Species
- Propithecus verreauxi
- Common name
- Verreaux's sifaka
- Synonyms
- Propithecus majori, Propithecus verreauxoides
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 31 years (wild)
- Source
- ref. 1091
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
One study in the wild found that females can live over 31 years [1091]. Moreover, one male of the /coquereli/ subspecies lived 30.5 years at the Duke University Primate Center [0671]. Infant survival of old females drops, but a decline in fertility has been reported in some of the oldest females [0540]. One study in the wild found that mortality increases and fertility seems to decline after age 18, though one female gave birth at the age of 28 and lived at least to the age of 29 [1084].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 912 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 912 days
- Gestation
- 148 days
- Weaning
- 150 days
- Litter size
- 1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1
- Inter-litter interval
- 537 days
- Weight at birth
- 72.25 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 5,000 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 172%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 309ºK or 36.0ºC or 96.8ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 3.7380 W
- Body mass
- 3350.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.001116 W/g
References
- [1125] Alberts et al. (2013), Reproductive aging patterns in primates reveal that humans are distinct (PubMed)
- [1143] Nussey et al. (2013), Senescence in natural populations of animals: widespread evidence and its implications for bio-gerontology (PubMed)
- [1091] Bronikowski et al. (2011), Aging in the natural world: comparative data reveal similar mortality patterns across primates (PubMed)
- [0817] Bielby et al. (2007), The fast-slow continuum in mammalian life history: an empirical reevaluation (PubMed)
- [0671] Richard Weigl (2005), Longevity of Mammals in Captivity; from the Living Collections of the World
- [0540] Pochron et al. (2004), Demography, life history, and social structure in Propithecus diadema edwardsi from 1986-2000 in Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar (PubMed)
- [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
- [0681] Peter Kappeler and Michael Pereira (2003), Primate Life Histories and Socioecology
- [0467] Lindenfors (2002), Sexually antagonistic selection on primate size
- [1084] Richard et al. (2002), Life in the slow lane? Demography and life histories of male and female sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi verreauxi)
- [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
- [0680] Wootton (1987), The effects of body mass, phylogeny, habitat, and trophic level on mammalian age at first reproduction
- [0679] Harvey and Clutton-Brock (1985), Life-history variation in primates
- [0436] Cutler (1979), Evolution of human longevity: a critical overview (PubMed)
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 572885
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- Taxonomy ID 34825
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