AnAge entry for Taxidea taxus
Classification (HAGRID: 02204)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Carnivora
Family: Mustelidae
Genus: Taxidea
- Species
- Taxidea taxus
- Common name
- American badger
- Synonyms
- Ursus taxus
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 25 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Small
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
The implantation can be delayed up to 10 months. One captive specimen was at least 25 years old when it died in captivity [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 183 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 441 days
- Gestation
- 41 days
- Weaning
- 56 days
- Litter size
- 3 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 0.7
- Inter-litter interval
- 365 days
- Weight at birth
- 93.5 g
- Weight at weaning
- 3,000 g
- Adult weight
- 8,000 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 129%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 311ºK or 38.0ºC or 100.4ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 15.0620 W
- Body mass
- 9000.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.001674 W/g
References
- [0817] Bielby et al. (2007), The fast-slow continuum in mammalian life history: an empirical reevaluation (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
- [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
- [0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World
- [0441] William Burt et al. (1998), A Field Guide to Mammals
- [0676] Purvis and Harvey (1995), Mammal life-history evolution: a comparative test of Charnov's model
- [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 180565
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 30554
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