AnAge entry for Lepus timidus
Classification (HAGRID: 02599)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Lagomorpha
Family: Leporidae
Genus: Lepus
- Species
- Lepus timidus
- Common name
- Mountain hare
- Synonyms
- Lepus othus tschuktschorum, Lepus timidus tschuktschorum
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 18 years (wild)
- Source
- ref. 640
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
One marked animal lived for 18 years in the wild [0640].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 266 days
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- 50 days
- Weaning
- 23 days
- Litter size
- 2 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 2.1
- Inter-litter interval
- 50 days
- Weight at birth
- 107.93 g
- Weight at weaning
- 492 g
- Adult weight
- 4,175 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 102%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 313ºK or 39.7ºC or 103.5ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 8.4430 W
- Body mass
- 3014.5 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.002801 W/g
References
- [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
- [0640] Angerbjorn and Flux (1995), Lepus timidus
- [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 180113
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account (if available)
- Encyclopaedia of Life
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 62621
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