AnAge entry for Hystrix africaeaustralis
Classification (HAGRID: 03007)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Rodentia
Family: Hystricidae
Genus: Hystrix
- Species
- Hystrix africaeaustralis
- Common name
- Cape porcupine
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 23.1 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
In the wild, these animals can live up to 15 years [0434]. One captive specimen lived for 23.1 years [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 375 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 390 days
- Gestation
- 94 days
- Weaning
- 77 days
- Litter size
- 2.1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1.7
- Inter-litter interval
- 379 days
- Weight at birth
- 351 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 24,000 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 101%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 311ºK or 37.5ºC or 99.5ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 13.1750 W
- Body mass
- 11300.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.001166 W/g
References
- [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
- [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
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 584680
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 10138
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