AnAge entry for Tamias striatus
Classification (HAGRID: 03184)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Rodentia
Family: Sciuridae
Genus: Tamias
- Species
- Tamias striatus
- Common name
- Eastern chipmunk
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 9.5 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Small
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
These animals have been known to live at least 2-3 years in the wild [0434]. One specimen lived 9.5 years in captivity. Another specimen of unknown sex lived over 9 years at London Zoo but could have been older because the exact date of birth is not known [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 187 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 228 days
- Gestation
- 31 days
- Weaning
- 36 days
- Litter size
- 5 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1.5
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- 3.4 g
- Weight at weaning
- 50.5 g
- Adult weight
- 96 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 96%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 311ºK or 38.2ºC or 100.8ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.8130 W
- Body mass
- 89.6 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.009074 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)
- [0610] Ernest (2003), Life history characteristics of placental non-volant mammals
- [0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World
- [0441] William Burt et al. (1998), A Field Guide to Mammals
- [0676] Purvis and Harvey (1995), Mammal life-history evolution: a comparative test of Charnov's model
- [0455] Virginia Hayssen et al. (1993), Asdell's Patterns of Mammalian Reproduction: A Compendium of Species-Specific Data
- [0542] Bernhard Grzimek (1990), Grzimek's Encyclopedia of Mammals
- [0680] Wootton (1987), The effects of body mass, phylogeny, habitat, and trophic level on mammalian age at first reproduction
- [0436] Cutler (1979), Evolution of human longevity: a critical overview (PubMed)
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- ITIS 180207
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- Taxonomy ID 45474
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