AnAge entry for Choloepus hoffmanni
Classification (HAGRID: 02658)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Pilosa
Family: Megalonychidae
Genus: Choloepus
- Species
- Choloepus hoffmanni
- Common name
- Hoffmann's two-toed sloth
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 41 years (captivity)
- Source
- John Gramieri, pers. comm.
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
A wild-caught male acquired in 1973 by San Antonio Zoo died in July 2013, making it at least 41 years of age (John Gramieri, pers. comm.).
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 730 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 1,095 days
- Gestation
- 350 days
- Weaning
- 21 days
- Litter size
- 1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 0.7
- Inter-litter interval
- 456 days
- Weight at birth
- 402 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 6,250 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 220%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 308ºK or 34.4ºC or 93.9ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 3.8910 W
- Body mass
- 4005.2 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.000971 W/g
References
- [1136] Gomes et al. (2011), Comparative biology of mammalian telomeres: hypotheses on ancestral states and the roles of telomeres in longevity determination (PubMed)
- [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
- [0470] Taube et al. (2001), Reproductive biology and postnatal development in sloths, Bradypus and Choloepus: review with original data from the field (French Guiana) and from captivity
- [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
External Resources
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- ITIS 624909
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- Taxonomy ID 9358
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