AnAge entry for Papio hamadryas
Classification (HAGRID: 02755)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Primates (Taxon entry)
Family: Cercopithecidae
Genus: Papio
- Species
- Papio hamadryas
- Common name
- Hamadryas baboon
- Synonyms
- Hamadryas aegyptiaca, Papio arabicus, Papio brockmani, Hamadryas chaeropitheus, Simia cynamolgus, Theropithecus nedjo, Cynocephalus wagleri
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- IMR
- 0.06/year
- MRDT
- 4 years
- Maximum longevity
- 37.5 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Large
- Data quality
- High
- Observations
There are different subspecies of baboons, all with similar life-history parameters and a gradual ageing phenotype. Baboons have been shown both in captivity and in the wild to age about twice as fast as humans [0009]. The IMR was estimated at age 5. One captive chacma baboon has been reported to live 45 years in captivity [0434], but this has not been confirmed. One male hamadryas baboon lived 37.5 years in captivity [0671]. In the wild, record longevity is 27 years. Baboons suffer from a variety of age-related diseases, including various types of cancer; in females, endometriosis has also been reported. Females appear to undergo menopause at about age 26 [0981].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 1,514 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 1,762 days
- Gestation
- 171 days
- Weaning
- 300 days
- Litter size
- 1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 0.8
- Inter-litter interval
- 568 days
- Weight at birth
- 814 g
- Weight at weaning
- 3,950 g
- Adult weight
- 18,000 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.0026 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
- Maximum longevity residual
- 171%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 311ºK or 38.0ºC or 100.4ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 21.0950 W
- Body mass
- 12670.8 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.001665 W/g
References
- [1252] Tung et al. (2016), Cumulative early life adversity predicts longevity in wild baboons
- [1150] Jones et al. (2014), Diversity of ageing across the tree of life (PubMed)
- [1125] Alberts et al. (2013), Reproductive aging patterns in primates reveal that humans are distinct (PubMed)
- [1143] Nussey et al. (2013), Senescence in natural populations of animals: widespread evidence and its implications for bio-gerontology (PubMed)
- [1091] Bronikowski et al. (2011), Aging in the natural world: comparative data reveal similar mortality patterns across primates (PubMed)
- [0944] Altmann et al. (2010), Life history context of reproductive aging in a wild primate model (PubMed)
- [0981] Wolf and Austad (2010), Introduction: Lifespans and Pathologies Present at Death in Laboratory Animals
- [0909] Havill et al. (2008), Osteopenia and osteoporosis in adult baboons (Papio hamadryas) (PubMed)
- [0763] Jeyapalan et al. (2007), Accumulation of senescent cells in mitotic tissue of aging primate (PubMed)
- [0708] Herbig et al. (2006), Cellular senescence in aging primates (PubMed)
- [0671] Richard Weigl (2005), Longevity of Mammals in Captivity; from the Living Collections of the World
- [0149] Goncharova and Lapin (2004), Age-related endocrine dysfunction in nonhuman primates (PubMed)
- [0150] Hilmer et al. (2004), The effect of aging on the immunohistochemistry of apolipoprotein E in the liver (PubMed)
- [0036] Savage et al. (2004), The predominance of quarter-power scaling in biology
- [0151] Cogger et al. (2003), Hepatic sinusoidal pseudocapillarization with aging in the non-human primate (PubMed)
- [0152] Muehlenbein et al. (2003), Dehydroepiandrosterone-sulfate as a biomarker of senescence in male non-human primates (PubMed)
- [0153] Martin et al. (2003), Variation in menstrual cycle length and cessation of menstruation in captive raised baboons (PubMed)
- [0154] Jayashankar et al. (2003), Lymphocyte modulation in a baboon model of immunosenescence (PubMed)
- [0155] Baerlocher et al. (2003), Telomere shortening in leukocyte subpopulations from baboons (PubMed)
- [0838] Martin et al. (2002), Lifespan in captive baboons is heritable (PubMed)
- [0156] Millien et al. (2002), Brain glucose hypometabolism after perirhinal lesions in baboons: implications for Alzheimer disease and aging (PubMed)
- [0009] Bronikowski et al. (2002), The aging baboon: comparative demography in a non-human primate (PubMed)
- [0157] Goncharova and Lapin (2002), Effects of aging on hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal system function in non-human primates (PubMed)
- [0467] Lindenfors (2002), Sexually antagonistic selection on primate size
- [0212] Schultz et al. (2001), Tau pathology in neurons and glial cells of aged baboon (PubMed)
- [0158] Attanasio et al. (2001), Age-related autoantibody production in a nonhuman primate model (PubMed)
- [0159] Schultz et al. (2000), Age-related progression of tau pathology in brains of baboons (PubMed)
- [0293] Rhine et al. (2000), Lifetime reproductive success, longevity, and reproductive life history of female yellow baboons (Papio cynocephalus) of Mikumi National Park, Tanzania (PubMed)
- [0160] Goncharova and Lapin (2000), Changes of hormonal function of the adrenal and gonadal glands in baboons of different age groups (PubMed)
- [0161] Schultz et al. (2000), Filamentous tau pathology in nerve cells, astrocytes, and oligodendrocytes of aged baboons (PubMed)
- [1045] Brain and Mitchell (1999), Body temperature changes in free-ranging baboons (Papio hamadryas ursinus) in the Namib Desert, Namibia
- [0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World
- [0294] Wasser et al. (1998), Ageing and social rank effects on the reproductive system of free-ranging yellow baboons (Papio cynocephalus) at Mikumi National Park, Tanzania (PubMed)
- [0162] Packer et al. (1998), Reproductive cessation in female mammals (PubMed)
- [0474] Rogers and Hixson (1997), Baboons as an animal model for genetic studies of common human disease (PubMed)
- [0163] Heffernan et al. (1995), A baboon (Papio hamadryas) model of insulin-dependent diabetes (PubMed)
- [0164] Holleschau and Rathbun (1994), The effects of age on glutathione peroxidase and glutathione reductase activities in lenses of Old World simians and prosimians (PubMed)
- [0165] Sapolsky et al. (1993), Senescent decline in serum dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate concentrations in a population of wild baboons (PubMed)
- [0455] Virginia Hayssen et al. (1993), Asdell's Patterns of Mammalian Reproduction: A Compendium of Species-Specific Data
- [0166] Lauerman et al. (1992), Age-related disk degeneration: preliminary report of a naturally occurring baboon model (PubMed)
- [0680] Wootton (1987), The effects of body mass, phylogeny, habitat, and trophic level on mammalian age at first reproduction
- [0679] Harvey and Clutton-Brock (1985), Life-history variation in primates
- [0731] Zullinger et al. (1984), Fitting sigmoid equations to mammalian growth curves
- [0059] Tolmasoff et al. (1980), Superoxide dismutase: correlation with life-span and specific metabolic rate in primate species (PubMed)
- [0436] Cutler (1979), Evolution of human longevity: a critical overview (PubMed)
- [0345] van Zyl and Kerrich (1955), The serum lipids and age in the baboon (Papio ursinus) (PubMed)
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