AnAge entry for Odocoileus virginianus
Classification (HAGRID: 02035)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Cervidae (Taxon entry)
Genus: Odocoileus
- Species
- Odocoileus virginianus
- Common name
- White-tailed deer
- Synonyms
- Dama virginianus, Dama virginiana
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 23 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 956
- Sample size
- Large
- Data quality
- High
- Observations
In the wild, few animals live more than 5-10 years. One pregnant female was about 19-23 years of age [0434]. Record longevity in captivity is 23 years [0956].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 309 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 417 days
- Gestation
- 198 days
- Weaning
- 129 days
- Litter size
- 2 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1
- Inter-litter interval
- 304 days
- Weight at birth
- 3,000 g
- Weight at weaning
- 36,000 g
- Adult weight
- 87,000 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.007 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
- Maximum longevity residual
- 82%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 312ºK or 39.0ºC or 102.2ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 123.4470 W
- Body mass
- 61862.5 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.001996 W/g
References
- [1143] Nussey et al. (2013), Senescence in natural populations of animals: widespread evidence and its implications for bio-gerontology (PubMed)
- [0956] Muller et al. (2010), Relevance of management and feeding regimens on life expectancy in captive deer (PubMed)
- [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
- [0086] Ditchkoff et al. (2001), Concentrations of insulin-like growth factor-I in adult male white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus): associations with serum testosterone, morphometrics and age during and after the breeding season (PubMed)
- [0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World
- [0441] William Burt et al. (1998), A Field Guide to Mammals
- [0677] Saether and Gordon (1994), The adaptive significance of reproductive strategies in ungulates (PubMed)
- [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
- [0731] Zullinger et al. (1984), Fitting sigmoid equations to mammalian growth curves
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 180699
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- ADW account
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 9874
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