AnAge entry for Oryx dammah
Classification (HAGRID: 01972)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Genus: Oryx
- Species
- Oryx dammah
- Common name
- Scimitar-horned oryx
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 27.5 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Large
- Data quality
- High
- Observations
One specimen was still living after 27.5 years in captivity [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 639 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 550 days
- Gestation
- 247 days
- Weaning
- Litter size
- 1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- 10,317 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 177,500 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 88%
Metabolism
No information on metabolism is available.
References
- [1308] Myhrvold et al. (2015), An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles
- [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
- [0680] Wootton (1987), The effects of body mass, phylogeny, habitat, and trophic level on mammalian age at first reproduction
External Resources
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- ITIS 625179
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- Taxonomy ID 59534
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