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AnAge entry for Echinops telfairi

Classification (HAGRID: 02236)
TaxonomyKingdom: Animalia
    Phylum: Chordata
        Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
            Order: Afrosoricida
                Family: Tenrecidae
                    Genus: Echinops
SpeciesEchinops telfairi
Common nameLesser hedgehog tenrec

Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits

Maximum longevity19 years (captivity)
Sourceref. 671
Sample sizemedium
Data qualityacceptable
Observations

In the wild, they become sexually mature after their first winter's hibernation, though females may conceive at six months of age in captivity. One captive specimen lived for 19 years [0671].

Life history traits (averages)

Female sexual maturity365 days
Male sexual maturity365 days
Gestation55 days
Weaning29 days
Litter size6 (viviparous)
Litters per year1
Inter-litter interval
Weight at birth7.67 g
Weight at weaning50 g
Adult weight180 g
Postnatal growth rate0.0301 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
Maximum longevity residual175 %

Metabolism

Typical body temperatureNot yet available
Basal metabolic rate0.7500 W
Body mass116.4 g
Metabolic rate per body mass0.006443 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
[0610] Ernest (2003), Life history characteristics of placental non-volant mammals
[0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World
[0678] Symonds (1999), Life histories of the Insectivora: the role of phylogeny, metabolism, and sex differences
[0455] Virginia Hayssen et al. (1993), Asdell's Patterns of Mammalian Reproduction: A Compendium of Species-Specific Data
[0542] Bernhard Grzimek (1990), Grzimek's Encyclopedia of Mammals
[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
[0148] Hart and Setlow (1974), Correlation between deoxyribonucleic acid excision-repair and life-span in a number of mammalian species, PubMed

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