AnAge entry for Diceros bicornis
Classification (HAGRID: 02645)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Perissodactyla
Family: Rhinocerotidae
Genus: Diceros
- Species
- Diceros bicornis
- Common name
- Black rhinoceros
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 57 years (wild)
- Source
- ref. 1380
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
One wild born female specimen was about 57 years old when it died in captivity at a sanctuary in Ngorongoro [1380].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 1,826 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 2,254 days
- Gestation
- 474 days
- Weaning
- 634 days
- Litter size
- 1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 0.4
- Inter-litter interval
- 1,059 days
- Weight at birth
- 36,500 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 1,100,000 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.0033 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
- Maximum longevity residual
- 138%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 312ºK or 39.0ºC or 102.2ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- Not yet 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
- [0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World
- [1061] Hillman-Smith and Groves (1994), Diceros bicornis
- [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
- [1380] "World's oldest rhino" Fausta dies in Tanzania aged 57
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- ITIS 625003
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- Taxonomy ID 9805
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