AnAge entry for Taurotragus oryx
Classification (HAGRID: 01997)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Genus: Taurotragus
- Species
- Taurotragus oryx
- Common name
- Eland
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 26.1 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Large
- Data quality
- High
- Observations
One captive specimen lived 26.1 years old [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 589 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 571 days
- Gestation
- 274 days
- Weaning
- 182 days
- Litter size
- 1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- Inter-litter interval
- 340 days
- Weight at birth
- 32,000 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 500,000 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.0019 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
- Maximum longevity residual
- 71%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 310ºK or 36.5ºC or 97.7ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 190.2090 W
- Body mass
- 141404.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.001345 W/g
References
- [1032] McNab (2008), An analysis of the factors that influence the level and scaling of mammalian BMR (PubMed)
- [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
- [0610] Ernest (2003), Life history characteristics of placental non-volant mammals
- [0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World
- [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
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- ITIS 625126
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