AnAge entry for Ammospermophilus leucurus

Classification (HAGRID: 03441)
Taxonomy	Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry) Order: Rodentia Family: Sciuridae Genus: Ammospermophilus
Species	Ammospermophilus leucurus
Common name	White-tailed antelope squirrel
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
Maximum longevity	11.2 years (captivity)
Source	ref. 671
Sample size	small
Data quality	acceptable
Observations	No observations are presently available
Life history traits (averages)
Female sexual maturity	365 days
Male sexual maturity	365 days
Gestation	29 days
Weaning	66 days
Litter size	8 (viviparous)
Litters per year	1.3
Inter-litter interval
Weight at birth	3.21 g
Weight at weaning	35 g
Adult weight	105 g
Postnatal growth rate	0.0284 days^-1 (from Gompertz function)
Maximum longevity residual	112 %
Metabolism
Typical body temperature	311ºK or 37.5ºC or 99.5ºF
Basal metabolic rate	0.5110 W
Body mass	94.1 g
Metabolic rate per body mass	0.005430 W/g
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 [0441] William Burt et al. (1998), A Field Guide to Mammals [0455] Virginia Hayssen et al. (1993), Asdell's Patterns of Mammalian Reproduction: A Compendium of Species-Specific Data [0731] Zullinger et al. (1984), Fitting sigmoid equations to mammalian growth curves
External resources
Integrated Taxonomic Information System	ITIS 180181
Animal Diversity Web	ADW account
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Genome Project	Search NCBI
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