AnAge entry for Megaptera novaeangliae
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Cetacea (Taxon entry)
Family: Balaenopteridae
Genus: Megaptera
- Species
- Megaptera novaeangliae
- Common name
- Humpback whale
- Synonyms
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Megaptera nodosa, Megaptera braziliensis, Megaptera indica, Megaptera lalandii, Megaptera longimana, Megaptera longipinna, Megaptera osphya, Megaptera versabilis, Balaena nodosa, Balaena lalandii, Balaena longimana, Balaena novaeangliae
- Maximum longevity
- 95 years (wild)
- Source
- ref. 573
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
- No observations are presently available
- Female sexual maturity
- 1,643 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 1,643 days
- Gestation
- 342 days
- Weaning
- 236 days
- Litter size
- 1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 0.5
- Inter-litter interval
- 657 days
- Weight at birth
- 1,350,000 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 30,000,000 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Typical body temperature
- 309ºK or 36.0ºC or 96.8ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- Not yet available
- [0610] Ernest (2003), Life history characteristics of placental non-volant mammals
- [0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World
- [0538] Don Wilson and Sue Ruff (1999), The Smithsonian Book of North American Mammals
- [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
- [0573] David Macdonald (1985), The Encyclopedia of Mammals
- [1044] Morrison (1962), Body temperatures in some Australian mammals. III Cetacea (Megaptera)
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