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AnAge entry for Coendou prehensilis

Classification (HAGRID: 03224)
TaxonomyKingdom: Animalia
    Phylum: Chordata
        Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
            Order: Rodentia
                Family: Erethizontidae
                    Genus: Coendou
SpeciesCoendou prehensilis
Common namePrehensile-tailed porcupine

Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits

Maximum longevity26.6 years (captivity)
Sourceref. 671
Sample sizemedium
Data qualityacceptable
Observations

One captive specimen lived for 26.6 years [0671].

Life history traits (averages)

Female sexual maturity578 days
Male sexual maturity578 days
Gestation203 days
Weaning95 days
Litter size1 (viviparous)
Litters per year
Inter-litter interval433 days
Weight at birth408 g
Weight at weaning
Adult weight3,900 g
Postnatal growth rate0.0112 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
Maximum longevity residual153 %

Metabolism

Typical body temperature310ºK or 36.7ºC or 98.1ºF
Basal metabolic rate5.1230 W
Body mass3280.0 g
Metabolic rate per body mass0.001562 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
[0610] Ernest (2003), Life history characteristics of placental non-volant mammals
[0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World
[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

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