AnAge entry for Crocuta crocuta
Classification (HAGRID: 02158)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Carnivora
Family: Hyaenidae
Genus: Crocuta
- Species
- Crocuta crocuta
- Common name
- Spotted hyena
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 41.1 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
- No observations are presently available
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 1,095 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 639 days
- Gestation
- 110 days
- Weaning
- 265 days
- Litter size
- 2 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1
- Inter-litter interval
- 449 days
- Weight at birth
- 1,390 g
- Weight at weaning
- 14,500 g
- Adult weight
- 63,000 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.0056 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
- Maximum longevity residual
- 155%
Metabolism
No information on metabolism is available.
References
- [1136] Gomes et al. (2011), Comparative biology of mammalian telomeres: hypotheses on ancestral states and the roles of telomeres in longevity determination (PubMed)
- [0671] Richard Weigl (2005), Longevity of Mammals in Captivity; from the Living Collections of the World
- [0130] East et al. (2003), Sexual conflicts in spotted hyenas: male and female mating tactics and their reproductive outcome with respect to age, social status and tenure (PubMed)
- [0610] Ernest (2003), Life history characteristics of placental non-volant mammals
- [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
- [0731] Zullinger et al. (1984), Fitting sigmoid equations to mammalian growth curves
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 621907
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account (if available)
- Encyclopaedia of Life
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 9678
- Entrez
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