AnAge entry for Gazella dorcas
Classification (HAGRID: 01944)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Genus: Gazella
- Species
- Gazella dorcas
- Common name
- Dorcas gazelle
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 23.7 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Large
- Data quality
- High
- Observations
One captive female lived for 23.7 years [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 730 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 589 days
- Gestation
- 182 days
- Weaning
- 82 days
- Litter size
- 1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1
- Inter-litter interval
- 338 days
- Weight at birth
- 1,650 g
- Weight at weaning
- 7,000 g
- Adult weight
- 14,500 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 112%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 312ºK or 38.9ºC or 102.0ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- Not yet available
References
- [1142] Kohler et al. (2006), Comparative mortality levels among selected species of captive animals
- [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
- [1063] Yom-Tov et al. (1995), Gazella dorcas
- [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
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- ITIS 625092
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- Taxonomy ID 37751
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