AnAge entry for Sciurus aberti
Classification (HAGRID: 03159)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Rodentia
Family: Sciuridae
Genus: Sciurus
- Species
- Sciurus aberti
- Common name
- Abert's squirrel
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- Not yet established
- Observations
Little is known about the longevity of these animals, but one specimen lived 7 years in captivity [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 327 days
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- 43 days
- Weaning
- 76 days
- Litter size
- 3.5 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1.5
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- 12 g
- Weight at weaning
- 355 g
- Adult weight
- 702.5 g
- Postnatal growth rate
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 314ºK or 40.7ºC or 105.3ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 2.4020 W
- Body mass
- 624.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.003849 W/g
References
- [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
- [0538] Don Wilson and Sue Ruff (1999), The Smithsonian Book of North American Mammals
- [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
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 180173
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- Taxonomy ID 10007
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