AnAge entry for Panthera tigris
Classification (HAGRID: 02130)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Carnivora
Family: Felidae
Genus: Panthera
- Species
- Panthera tigris
- Common name
- Tiger
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 26.3 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Large
- Data quality
- High
- Observations
One tiger lived 26.3 years at Adelaide Zoo. A hybrid between a tiger and a lion lived 24.2 years [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 1,268 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 1,415 days
- Gestation
- 105 days
- Weaning
- 121 days
- Litter size
- 2.5 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 0.4
- Inter-litter interval
- 750 days
- Weight at birth
- 1,190 g
- Weight at weaning
- 11,003 g
- Adult weight
- 119,700 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 89%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 311ºK or 37.5ºC or 99.5ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 133.8590 W
- Body mass
- 137900.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.000971 W/g
References
- [1136] Gomes et al. (2011), Comparative biology of mammalian telomeres: hypotheses on ancestral states and the roles of telomeres in longevity determination (PubMed)
- [1142] Kohler et al. (2006), Comparative mortality levels among selected species of captive animals
- [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)
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 183805
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 9694
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