AnAge entry for Cheirogaleus medius
Classification (HAGRID: 02774)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Primates (Taxon entry)
Family: Cheirogaleidae
Genus: Cheirogaleus
- Species
- Cheirogaleus medius
- Common name
- Fat-tailed dwarf lemur
- Synonyms
- Cheirogaleus adipicaudatus, Cheirogaleus minor, Cheirogaleus samati
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 29 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 1301
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
This animal has been argued as an example of a fast ageing primate [0463]. One captive specimen lived for 29 years [1301].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 365 days
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- 61 days
- Weaning
- Clutch or litter size
- 2.2
- Breedings per year
- 1
- Inter-litter interval
- 365 days
- Weight at birth
- 19 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 380 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 239%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 311ºK or 38.0ºC or 100.4ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 1.0880 W
- Body mass
- 300.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.003627 W/g
References
- [1221] Blanco and Zehr (2015), Striking longevity in a hibernating lemur
- [1301] Zehr et al. (2014), Life history profiles for 27 strepsirrhine primate taxa generated using captive data from the Duke Lemur Center (PubMed)
- [0978] Jones et al. (2009), PanTHERIA: a species-level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals
- [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
- [0144] Gilissen et al. (1999), Topographical localization of lipofuscin pigment in the brain of the aged fat-tailed dwarf lemur (Cheirogaleus medius) and grey lesser mouse lemur (Microcebus murinus): comparison to iron localization (PubMed)
- [0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World
- [0143] Gilissen et al. (1998), Topographical localization of iron in brains of the aged fat-tailed dwarf lemur (Cheirogaleus medius) and gray lesser mouse lemur (Microcebus murinus) (PubMed)
- [0463] Austad (1997), Small nonhuman primates as potential models of human aging (PubMed)
- [0455] Virginia Hayssen et al. (1993), Asdell's Patterns of Mammalian Reproduction: A Compendium of Species-Specific Data
- [0679] Harvey and Clutton-Brock (1985), Life-history variation in primates
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 572859
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account
- Encyclopaedia of Life
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 9460
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- Ageing Literature
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