AnAge entry for Berardius bairdii
Classification (HAGRID: 02306)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Cetacea (Taxon entry)
Family: Hyperoodontidae
Genus: Berardius
- Species
- Berardius bairdii
- Common name
- Baird's beaked whale
- Synonyms
- Berardius vegae
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 84 years (wild)
- Source
- Multiple references, please see bibliography below
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
These animals reach sexual maturity in about 10 years but they only reach physical maturity in about 20 years [0434].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 4,383 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 2,922 days
- Gestation
- 517 days
- Weaning
- Litter size
- 1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 0.3
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 11,380,000 g
- Postnatal growth rate
Metabolism
No information on metabolism is available.
References
- [0978] Jones et al. (2009), PanTHERIA: a species-level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals
- [0443] Ronald Nowak (2003), Walker's Marine Mammals of the World
- [0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World
- [0538] Don Wilson and Sue Ruff (1999), The Smithsonian Book of North American Mammals
- [0680] Wootton (1987), The effects of body mass, phylogeny, habitat, and trophic level on mammalian age at first reproduction
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 180496
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account
- Encyclopaedia of Life
- Search EOL
- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 48742
- Entrez
- Search all databases
- Ageing Literature
- Search Google Scholar or Search PubMed
- Images
- Google Image search
- Internet
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