AnAge entry for Apteryx australis
Classification (HAGRID: 00388)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves (Taxon entry)
Order: Apterygiformes
Family: Apterygidae
Genus: Apteryx
- Species
- Apteryx australis
- Common name
- Brown kiwi
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 35 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 1
- Sample size
- Small
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
In captivity, these animals have been reported to live up to 35 years [0001]. There are also anecdotal claims that they can live up to 40 years in captivity.
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 1,461 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 548 days
- Incubation
- 75 days
- Clutch size
- 1 (oviparous)
- Clutches per year
- Weight at hatching
- 325 g
- Adult weight
- 2,600 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.0312 days-1 (from logistic function)
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- Not yet available
- Basal metabolic rate
- 4.0290 W
- Body mass
- 2380.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.001693 W/g
References
- [1308] Myhrvold et al. (2015), An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles
- [0435] McKechnie and Wolf (2004), The allometry of avian basal metabolic rate: good predictions need good data (PubMed)
- [0001] Carey and Judge (2000), Longevity Records: Life Spans of Mammals, Birds, Amphibians, Reptiles, and Fish
- [0732] Starck and Ricklefs (1998), Avian growth rate data set
- [0438] Smithsonian National Zoological Park
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 174394
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account
- Encyclopaedia of Life
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 8822
- Entrez
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- Ageing Literature
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