AnAge entry for Poecilogale albinucha
Classification (HAGRID: 02202)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Carnivora
Family: Mustelidae
Genus: Poecilogale
- Species
- Poecilogale albinucha
- Common name
- African striped weasel
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- Not yet established
- Observations
Little is known about the longevity of these animals, but one wild born couple was still living in captivity at about 6 years of age [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 439 days
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- 32 days
- Weaning
- 65 days
- Litter size
- 2.2 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1.2
- Inter-litter interval
- 240 days
- Weight at birth
- 4 g
- Weight at weaning
- 50 g
- Adult weight
- 280 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.0255 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
Metabolism
No information on metabolism is available.
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
- [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
- [0731] Zullinger et al. (1984), Fitting sigmoid equations to mammalian growth curves
External Resources
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- ITIS 621957
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- Taxonomy ID 311562
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