AnAge entry for Dasyurus maculatus

Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits

Females over 3 years of age produce no litters but males over 5 years old can still be fertile. Although these animals reach sexual maturity in about one year, they do not become fully grown until about two years of age [0509]. In the wild, these animals do not typically live more than 3 years. One animal lived 6.8 years in captivity [0671].

Life history traits (averages)

Metabolism

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
[0730] Smith et al. (2003), Body mass of late Quaternary mammals
[0509] Jones et al. (2001), Dasyurus maculatus
[0455] Virginia Hayssen et al. (1993), Asdell's Patterns of Mammalian Reproduction: A Compendium of Species-Specific Data

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