AnAge entry for Syncerus caffer
Classification (HAGRID: 01995)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Genus: Syncerus
- Species
- Syncerus caffer
- Common name
- African buffalo
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 32.8 years (captivity)
- Source
- Thomas Brockmann, pers. comm.
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
These animals live up to 18 years in the wild [0434]. One captive female was 32.8 years of age when she died in 2015 at Dresden Zoo (Thomas Brockmann, pers. comm.).
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 1,475 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 1,674 days
- Gestation
- 331 days
- Weaning
- 289 days
- Litter size
- 1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 0.4
- Inter-litter interval
- 635 days
- Weight at birth
- 44,000 g
- Weight at weaning
- 166,000 g
- Adult weight
- 700,000 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.0026 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
- Maximum longevity residual
- 85%
Metabolism
No information on metabolism is available.
References
- [1135] Lemaitre et al. (2013), Comparing free-ranging and captive populations reveals intra-specific variation in aging rates in large herbivores (PubMed)
- [1143] Nussey et al. (2013), Senescence in natural populations of animals: widespread evidence and its implications for bio-gerontology (PubMed)
- [0610] Ernest (2003), Life history characteristics of placental non-volant mammals
- [0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World
- [0676] Purvis and Harvey (1995), Mammal life-history evolution: a comparative test of Charnov's model
- [0677] Saether and Gordon (1994), The adaptive significance of reproductive strategies in ungulates (PubMed)
- [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
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 183847
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 9970
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