AnAge entry for Connochaetes taurinus
Classification (HAGRID: 01937)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Genus: Connochaetes
- Species
- Connochaetes taurinus
- Common name
- Blue wildebeest
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 24.3 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Large
- Data quality
- High
- Observations
Although they may be sexually mature earlier, males can only breed when they are about 2.5 years old. Females may breed at earlier ages. One specimen lived 24.3 years in captivity [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 411 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 912 days
- Gestation
- 253 days
- Weaning
- 278 days
- Litter size
- 1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1
- Inter-litter interval
- 365 days
- Weight at birth
- 18,125 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 164,500 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.0026 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
- Maximum longevity residual
- 79%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 311ºK or 38.0ºC or 100.4ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 230.0730 W
- Body mass
- 196500.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.001171 W/g
References
- [1135] Lemaitre et al. (2013), Comparing free-ranging and captive populations reveals intra-specific variation in aging rates in large herbivores (PubMed)
- [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
- [0677] Saether and Gordon (1994), The adaptive significance of reproductive strategies in ungulates (PubMed)
- [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
- [0731] Zullinger et al. (1984), Fitting sigmoid equations to mammalian growth curves
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 625079
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- ADW account (if available)
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 9927
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