AnAge entry for Cervus elaphus

Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits

One captive specimen was about 31.5 years of age when it died [0671].

Life history traits (averages)

Metabolism

References

[0791] Nussey et al. (2008), Testing for genetic trade-offs between early- and late-life reproduction in a wild red deer population, PubMed
[0789] Wilson et al. (2007), Evidence for a genetic basis of aging in two wild vertebrate populations, PubMed
[0790] Nussey et al. (2006), The rate of senescence in maternal performance increases with early-life fecundity in red deer, 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
[0147] Loe et al. (2003), Decelerating and sex-dependent tooth wear in Norwegian red deer, PubMed
[0086] Ditchkoff et al. (2001), Concentrations of insulin-like growth factor-I in adult male white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus): associations with serum testosterone, morphometrics and age during and after the breeding season, PubMed
[0146] Fisher et al. (2000), Role of ovarian failure in reproductive senescence in aged red deer (Cervus elaphus) hinds, PubMed
[0145] Kruuk et al. (2000), Heritability of fitness in a wild mammal population, PubMed
[0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World
[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

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