AnAge entry for Panthera onca
Classification (HAGRID: 02128)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Carnivora
Family: Felidae
Genus: Panthera
- Species
- Panthera onca
- Common name
- Jaguar
- Synonyms
- Felis onca, Felis onca coxi, Felis onca boliviensis, Felis onca ucayalae
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 28 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Large
- Data quality
- High
- Observations
One wild born female was around 28 years of age when she died in captivity [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 730 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 730 days
- Gestation
- 99 days
- Weaning
- 126 days
- Litter size
- 2 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 0.5
- Inter-litter interval
- 365 days
- Weight at birth
- 820 g
- Weight at weaning
- 5,034 g
- Adult weight
- 81,150 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.0072 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
- Maximum longevity residual
- 101%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 310ºK or 37.0ºC or 98.6ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 62.4190 W
- Body mass
- 50400.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.001238 W/g
References
- [0817] Bielby et al. (2007), The fast-slow continuum in mammalian life history: an empirical reevaluation (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
- [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
- [0089] Ulehlova et al. (1984), Involution of the auditory neuro-epithelium in a tiger (Panthera tigris) and a jaguar (Panthera onca) (PubMed)
- [0731] Zullinger et al. (1984), Fitting sigmoid equations to mammalian growth curves
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- ITIS 180593
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- Taxonomy ID 9690
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