AnAge entry for Alouatta palliata
Classification (HAGRID: 02669)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Primates (Taxon entry)
Family: Atelidae
Genus: Alouatta
- Species
- Alouatta palliata
- Common name
- Mantled howler monkey
- Synonyms
- Alouatta aequatorialis, Alouatta inclamax, Mycetes niger, Alouatta palliata inconsonans, Alouatta palliata quichua, Alouatta palliata matagalpae
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 24 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Small
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
In the wild, adults are estimated to live on average 16 years [0434]. One wild born female lived more than 15 years in captivity and could have been as old as 24 [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 1,095 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 1,278 days
- Gestation
- 186 days
- Weaning
- 433 days
- Litter size
- 1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 0.6
- Inter-litter interval
- 384 days
- Weight at birth
- 409 g
- Weight at weaning
- 1,100 g
- Adult weight
- 7,000 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 126%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 309ºK or 36.0ºC or 96.8ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 11.4640 W
- Body mass
- 4670.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.002455 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)
- [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
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 572939
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- Taxonomy ID 30589
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