AnAge entry for Alces alces

Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits

It has been reported that females may live up to 22 years in the wild [0538]. Others have reported that mooses live up to 27 years in the wild [0001], which is plausible but unconfirmed. Record longevity in captivity is 18.4 years [0671]. Due to these conflicting reports, the maximum longevity of this species is classified as unknown.

Life history traits (averages)

Metabolism

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
[0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World
[0538] Don Wilson and Sue Ruff (1999), The Smithsonian Book of North American Mammals
[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
[0677] Saether and Gordon (1994), The adaptive significance of reproductive strategies in ungulates, PubMed
[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
[0731] Zullinger et al. (1984), Fitting sigmoid equations to mammalian growth curves
[0001] Longevity Records: Life Spans of Mammals, Birds, Amphibians, Reptiles, and Fish

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