AnAge entry for Leopardus pardalis
Classification (HAGRID: 02118)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Carnivora
Family: Felidae
Genus: Leopardus
- Species
- Leopardus pardalis
- Common name
- Ocelot
- Synonyms
- Felis pardalis
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 28.2 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
One captive animal lived for 28.2 years [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 600 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 600 days
- Gestation
- 77 days
- Weaning
- 106 days
- Litter size
- 2 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1
- Inter-litter interval
- 452 days
- Weight at birth
- 255.5 g
- Weight at weaning
- 3,400 g
- Adult weight
- 8,800 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 143%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 311ºK or 38.0ºC or 100.4ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 17.3680 W
- Body mass
- 10500.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.001654 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
- [0538] Don Wilson and Sue Ruff (1999), The Smithsonian Book of North American Mammals
- [0441] William Burt et al. (1998), A Field Guide to Mammals
- [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
- [0448] Woodland Park Zoo
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 552470
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 32538
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