AnAge entry for Pteropus giganteus
Classification (HAGRID: 02362)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Chiroptera (Taxon entry)
Family: Pteropodidae
Genus: Pteropus
- Species
- Pteropus giganteus
- Common name
- Indian flying fox
- Synonyms
- Pteropus giganteus chinghaiensis
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 44 years (captivity)
- Source
- Melody Brooks, pers. comm.
- Sample size
- Large
- Data quality
- High
- Observations
One male animal died at San Diego Zoo in 2008 when it was about 44 years old.
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 365 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 365 days
- Gestation
- 145 days
- Weaning
- 120 days
- Litter size
- 1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1
- Inter-litter interval
- 365 days
- Weight at birth
- 45 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 1,175 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 305%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 310ºK or 36.7ºC or 98.1ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 1.6220 W
- Body mass
- 562.2 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.002885 W/g
References
- [0036] Savage et al. (2004), The predominance of quarter-power scaling in biology
- [0971] Jones et al. (2003), Biological correlates of extinction risk in bats (PubMed)
- [0420] White and Seymour (2003), Mammalian basal metabolic rate is proportional to body mass2/3 (PubMed)
- [0424] Wilkinson and South (2002), Life history, ecology and longevity in bats (PubMed)
- [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
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 631629
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account
- Encyclopaedia of Life
- Search EOL
- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 143291
- Entrez
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- Ageing Literature
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- Images
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- Internet
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