AnAge entry for Cacatua galerita
Classification (HAGRID: 01539)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves (Taxon entry)
Order: Psittaciformes (Taxon entry)
Family: Psittacidae
Genus: Cacatua
- Species
- Cacatua galerita
- Common name
- Sulphur-crested cockatoo
- Synonyms
- Cacatura galerita
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 57 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 669
- Sample size
- Large
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
There are anecdotal reports of animals living over 100 years. Presently, however, the record longevity belongs to one captive specimen called "Cocky" that lived over 57 years at London Zoo [0669]. Another report suggested that these animals can live up to 73.0 years in captivity [0979], but this has not been verified.
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 1,461 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 1,278 days
- Incubation
- 27 days
- Clutch size
- 2 (oviparous)
- Clutches per year
- Weight at hatching
- Adult weight
- 800 g
- Postnatal growth rate
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- Not yet available
- Basal metabolic rate
- 3.4190 W
- Body mass
- 776.1 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.004405 W/g
References
- [1308] Myhrvold et al. (2015), An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles
- [0979] Young et al. (2012), Survival on the ark: life history trends in captive parrots (PubMed)
- [0435] McKechnie and Wolf (2004), The allometry of avian basal metabolic rate: good predictions need good data (PubMed)
- [0669] Brouwer et al. (2000), Longevity records for Psittaciformes in captivity
- [0491] CKC Birds
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 177815
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account
- Encyclopaedia of Life
- Search EOL
- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 141274
- Entrez
- Search all databases
- Ageing Literature
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- Images
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- Internet
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