AnAge entry for Macaca fascicularis
Classification (HAGRID: 03165)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Primates (Taxon entry)
Family: Cercopithecidae
Genus: Macaca
- Species
- Macaca fascicularis
- Common name
- Long-tailed macaque
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 39 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Large
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
One wild born male lived 37.1 years in captivity, making it as old as 39 when he died [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 1,238 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 1,544 days
- Gestation
- 165 days
- Weaning
- 242 days
- Litter size
- 1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 0.9
- Inter-litter interval
- 431 days
- Weight at birth
- 320 g
- Weight at weaning
- 848.4 g
- Adult weight
- 6,363 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 209%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 311ºK or 37.6ºC or 99.7ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- Not yet available
References
- [0946] McFarlane et al. (2011), Age-associated alteration in innate immune response in captive baboons, PubMed
- [0945] Aizawa et al. (2009), Age-dependent alteration in hippocampal neurogenesis correlates with learning performance of macaque monkeys, PubMed
- [0825] Bertoni-Freddari et al. (2008), Selective decline of the metabolic competence of oversized synaptic mitochondria in the old monkey cerebellum, PubMed
- [0804] Bellavista et al. (2008), Immunoproteasome in Macaca fascicularis: no age-dependent modification of abundance and activity in the brain and insight into an in silico structural model, PubMed
- [1028] Sikoski et al. (2007), Comparison of rectal and infrared thermometry for obtaining body temperature in cynomolgus macaques (Macaca fascicularis), PubMed
- [0798] Gardner et al. (2007), Telomere dynamics in macaques and humans, PubMed
- [0671] Richard Weigl (2005), Longevity of Mammals in Captivity; from the Living Collections of the World
- [0167] Kimura et al. (2003), Age-related changes of Alzheimer's disease-associated proteins in cynomolgus monkey brains, PubMed
- [0168] Wang et al. (2003), Aging increases aortic MMP-2 activity and angiotensin II in nonhuman primates, PubMed
- [0095] Shimizu et al. (2003), In vitro aging of macaque adherent cells: similar pattern of cellular aging between human and macaque, PubMed
- [0610] Ernest (2003), Life history characteristics of placental non-volant mammals
- [0681] Peter Kappeler and Michael Pereira (2003), Primate Life Histories and Socioecology
- [0467] Lindenfors (2002), Sexually antagonistic selection on primate size
- [0169] Kimura et al. (2001), Age-related changes in the localization of presenilin-1 in cynomolgus monkey brain, PubMed
- [0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World
- [0170] Nam et al. (1998), Age-related changes in major lymphocyte subsets in cynomolgus monkeys, PubMed
- [0171] Veenema et al. (1997), Aging, dominance history, and social behavior in Java-monkeys (Macaca fascicularis), PubMed
- [0172] Cefalu et al. (1997), A study of caloric restriction and cardiovascular aging in cynomolgus monkeys (Macaca fascicularis): a potential model for aging research, 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
- [0679] Harvey and Clutton-Brock (1985), Life-history variation in primates
- [0173] Hamlin et al. (1980), Aging of collagen: comparative rates in four mammalian species, PubMed
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