AnAge entry for Nycticebus coucang
Classification (HAGRID: 02821)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Primates (Taxon entry)
Family: Lorisidae
Genus: Nycticebus
- Species
- Nycticebus coucang
- Common name
- Slow loris
- Synonyms
- Lemur tardigradus, Nycticebus sumatrensis, Nycticebus coucang brachycephalus, Nycticebus coucang buku, Nycticebus coucang hilleri, Nycticebus coucang insularis, Nycticebus tardigradus malaiana
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 25.8 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
One captive specimen lived 25.8 years [0671]. There is also one report of a 26.5 year old animal [0574], which has not been confirmed.
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 578 days
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- 188 days
- Weaning
- 177 days
- Litter size
- 1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1
- Inter-litter interval
- 492 days
- Weight at birth
- 48.2 g
- Weight at weaning
- 520 g
- Adult weight
- 890.5 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 186%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 309ºK or 35.4ºC or 95.7ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 1.5040 W
- Body mass
- 1128.6 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.001333 W/g
References
- [1301] Zehr et al. (2014), Life history profiles for 27 strepsirrhine primate taxa generated using captive data from the Duke Lemur Center (PubMed)
- [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
- [0681] Peter Kappeler and Michael Pereira (2003), Primate Life Histories and Socioecology
- [0467] Lindenfors (2002), Sexually antagonistic selection on primate size
- [0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World
- [0574] Hakeem et al. (1996), Brain and life span in primates
- [0455] Virginia Hayssen et al. (1993), Asdell's Patterns of Mammalian Reproduction: A Compendium of Species-Specific Data
- [0679] Harvey and Clutton-Brock (1985), Life-history variation in primates
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 572890
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account
- Encyclopaedia of Life
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 9470
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