AnAge entry for Lepus townsendii
Classification (HAGRID: 02600)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Lagomorpha
Family: Leporidae
Genus: Lepus
- Species
- Lepus townsendii
- Common name
- White-tailed jackrabbit
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- Not yet established
- Observations
Little is known about the longevity of these animals, though it has been reported that they live up to 8 years [0610].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 333 days
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- 39 days
- Weaning
- 27 days
- Litter size
- 4.3 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 2.8
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- 94.32 g
- Weight at weaning
- 737 g
- Adult weight
- 3,036 g
- Postnatal growth rate
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 311ºK or 38.2ºC or 100.8ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 7.6980 W
- Body mass
- 2523.2 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.003051 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
- [0538] Don Wilson and Sue Ruff (1999), The Smithsonian Book of North American Mammals
- [0455] Virginia Hayssen et al. (1993), Asdell's Patterns of Mammalian Reproduction: A Compendium of Species-Specific Data
- [0542] Bernhard Grzimek (1990), Grzimek's Encyclopedia of Mammals
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 180118
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account
- Encyclopaedia of Life
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 63225
- Entrez
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- Ageing Literature
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