AnAge entry for Propithecus verreauxi
Classification (HAGRID: 03232)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Primates (Taxon entry)
Family: Indridae
Genus: Propithecus
- Species
- Propithecus verreauxi
- Common name
- Verreaux's sifaka
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 30.5 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Small
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
One male of the coquereli subspecies lived 30.5 years at the Duke University Primate Center [0671]. Infant survival of old females drops, but a decline in fertility has been reported in some of the oldest females [0540].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 912 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 912 days
- Gestation
- 148 days
- Weaning
- 150 days
- Litter size
- 1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1
- Inter-litter interval
- 537 days
- Weight at birth
- 72.25 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 5,000 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 169%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 309ºK or 36.0ºC or 96.8ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 3.7380 W
- Body mass
- 3350.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.001116 W/g
References
- [0817] Bielby et al. (2007), The fast-slow continuum in mammalian life history: an empirical reevaluation, PubMed
- [0671] Richard Weigl (2005), Longevity of Mammals in Captivity; from the Living Collections of the World
- [0540] Pochron et al. (2004), Demography, life history, and social structure in Propithecus diadema edwardsi from 1986-2000 in Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar, PubMed
- [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
- [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
- [0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World
- [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
- [0436] Cutler (1979), Evolution of human longevity: a critical overview, PubMed
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 572885
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