AnAge entry for Cryptoprocta ferox
Classification (HAGRID: 02102)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Carnivora
Family: Eupleridae
Genus: Cryptoprocta
- Species
- Cryptoprocta ferox
- Common name
- Fossa
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 23.1 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
In captivity, these animals may live up to 23.1 years [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 1,496 days
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- 90 days
- Weaning
- 129 days
- Litter size
- 3 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- 100 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 9,500 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.0038 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
- Maximum longevity residual
- 116%
Metabolism
No information on metabolism is available.
References
- [0978] Jones et al. (2009), PanTHERIA: a species-level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals
- [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
- [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
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- ITIS 621973
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- Taxonomy ID 94188
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