AnAge entry for Otolemur garnettii
Classification (HAGRID: 03214)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Primates (Taxon entry)
Family: Galagonidae
Genus: Otolemur
- Species
- Otolemur garnettii
- Common name
- Small-eared galago
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 18.3 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
One specimen lived 18.3 years in captivity [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 600 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 600 days
- Gestation
- 132 days
- Weaning
- 140 days
- Litter size
- 1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1.4
- Inter-litter interval
- 365 days
- Weight at birth
- 46 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 1,300 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 125%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 309ºK or 36.0ºC or 96.8ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 3.9270 W
- Body mass
- 1314.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.002989 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
- [0420] White and Seymour (2003), Mammalian basal metabolic rate is proportional to body mass2/3, PubMed
- [0681] Peter Kappeler and Michael Pereira (2003), Primate Life Histories and Socioecology
- [0467] Lindenfors (2002), Sexually antagonistic selection on primate size
- [0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World
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- ITIS 572903
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