AnAge entry for Ammotragus lervia

Classification (HAGRID: 02248)
Taxonomy	Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry) Order: Artiodactyla Family: Bovidae Genus: Ammotragus
Species	Ammotragus lervia
Common name	Aoudad
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
Maximum longevity	21.7 years (captivity)
Source	ref. 671
Sample size	large
Data quality	acceptable
Observations	No observations are presently available
Life history traits (averages)
Female sexual maturity	335 days
Male sexual maturity
Gestation	149 days
Weaning	122 days
Litter size	1.2 (viviparous)
Litters per year	2
Inter-litter interval	229 days
Weight at birth	4,500 g
Weight at weaning
Adult weight	92,500 g
Postnatal growth rate	0.0053 days^-1 (from Gompertz function)
Maximum longevity residual	77 %
Metabolism
No information on metabolism available.
References
[0671] Richard Weigl (2005), Longevity of Mammals in Captivity; from the Living Collections of the World [0610] Ernest (2003), Life history characteristics of placental non-volant mammals [0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World [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
External resources
Integrated Taxonomic Information System	ITIS 180719
Animal Diversity Web	ADW account
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Genome Project	Search NCBI
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Internet	Search Google

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