AnAge entry for Tarsius tarsier
Classification (HAGRID: 02837)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Primates (Taxon entry)
Family: Tarsiidae
Genus: Tarsius
- Species
- Tarsius tarsier
- Common name
- Spectral tarsier
- Synonyms
- Tarsius spectrum, Tarsius fuscus fuscomanus
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- Not yet established
- Observations
Little is known about the longevity of these animals. It has been reported that they can live for 12 years [0467], which is possible but has not been confirmed. One animal was still alive after 8.2 years in captivity [0671]. Further studies are necessary to better estimate the maximum longevity of this species.
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 425 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 425 days
- Gestation
- 157 days
- Weaning
- 69 days
- Litter size
- 1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 2.4
- Inter-litter interval
- 153 days
- Weight at birth
- 24.3 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 144.8 g
- Postnatal growth rate
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 309ºK or 36.0ºC or 96.8ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.8310 W
- Body mass
- 173.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.004803 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
- [0681] Peter Kappeler and Michael Pereira (2003), Primate Life Histories and Socioecology
- [0467] Lindenfors (2002), Sexually antagonistic selection on primate size
- [0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World
- [0463] Austad (1997), Small nonhuman primates as potential models of human aging (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
- [0679] Harvey and Clutton-Brock (1985), Life-history variation in primates
- [0436] Cutler (1979), Evolution of human longevity: a critical overview (PubMed)
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- ITIS 944115
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