AnAge entry for Ailurops ursinus
Classification (HAGRID: 02556)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Diprotodontia
Family: Phalangeridae
Genus: Ailurops
- Species
- Ailurops ursinus
- Common name
- Sulawesi bear cuscus, or Bear cuscus
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- Not yet established
- Observations
Little is known about these animals and few have been kept in captivity. One specimen lived 5.9 years at Berlin Zoo before it died in 1937 [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- Weaning
- Litter size
- (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 7,000 g
- Postnatal growth rate
Metabolism
No information on metabolism is available.
References
- [0671] Richard Weigl (2005), Longevity of Mammals in Captivity; from the Living Collections of the World
- [0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 552681
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account
- Encyclopaedia of Life
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 165204
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