AnAge entry for Colobus polykomos
Classification (HAGRID: 02733)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Primates (Taxon entry)
Family: Cercopithecidae
Genus: Colobus
- Species
- Colobus polykomos
- Common name
- King colobus
- Synonyms
- Simia comosa, Simia polycomos, Simia regalis, Simia tetradactyla
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 33.9 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Small
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
One captive female was 33.9 years old when she died [0671]. Estimates of the age at sexual maturity range from 2 years [0455] to nearly 7 years [0610].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 1,642 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 730 days
- Gestation
- 185 days
- Weaning
- 270 days
- Litter size
- 1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 0.6
- Inter-litter interval
- 442 days
- Weight at birth
- 708.5 g
- Weight at weaning
- 1,240 g
- Adult weight
- 9,525 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 170%
Metabolism
No information on metabolism is available.
References
- [0671] Richard Weigl (2005), Longevity of Mammals in Captivity; from the Living Collections of the World
- [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
- [0542] Bernhard Grzimek (1990), Grzimek's Encyclopedia of Mammals
- [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
- [0511] Ronald Nowak and John Paradiso (1983), Walker's Mammals of the World
- [0436] Cutler (1979), Evolution of human longevity: a critical overview (PubMed)
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 573037
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 9572
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