AnAge entry for Daubentonia madagascariensis
Classification (HAGRID: 02779)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Primates (Taxon entry)
Family: Daubentoniidae
Genus: Daubentonia
- Species
- Daubentonia madagascariensis
- Common name
- Aye-aye
- Synonyms
- Lemur psilodactylus, Cheiromys madagascariensis laniger
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 32.3 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 1301
- Sample size
- Small
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
The Duke Lemur center reported a captive specimen aged 32.3 years [1301].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 882 days
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- 165 days
- Weaning
- Clutch or litter size
- 1
- Breedings per year
- 1
- Inter-litter interval
- 760 days
- Weight at birth
- 109 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 2,278 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 202%
Metabolism
No information on metabolism is available.
References
- [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
- [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
- [0679] Harvey and Clutton-Brock (1985), Life-history variation in primates
- [0436] Cutler (1979), Evolution of human longevity: a critical overview (PubMed)
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 572886
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- Taxonomy ID 31869
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