AnAge entry for Okapia johnstoni
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Giraffidae
Genus: Okapia
- Species
- Okapia johnstoni
- Common name
- Okapi
- Maximum longevity
- 33.5 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
- No observations are presently available
- Female sexual maturity
- 578 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 790 days
- Gestation
- 458 days
- Weaning
- 194 days
- Litter size
- 1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 0.8
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- 16,000 g
- Weight at weaning
- 77,000 g
- Adult weight
- 225,000 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 104%
- Typical body temperature
- 311ºK or 38.1ºC or 100.5ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- Not yet available
- [0671] Richard Weigl (2005), Longevity of Mammals in Captivity; from the Living Collections of the World
- [0610] Ernest (2003), Life history characteristics of placental non-volant mammals
- [0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World
- [0455] Virginia Hayssen et al. (1993), Asdell's Patterns of Mammalian Reproduction: A Compendium of Species-Specific Data
- [1072] Bennett and Lindsey (1992), Some notes on the physiological and behavioral ontogeny of okapi (Okapia Johnstoni) calves
- [0680] Wootton (1987), The effects of body mass, phylogeny, habitat, and trophic level on mammalian age at first reproduction
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- ITIS 625037
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- Taxonomy ID 86973
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