AnAge entry for Tetrao urogallus
Classification (HAGRID: 00696)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves (Taxon entry)
Order: Galliformes
Family: Phasianidae
Genus: Tetrao
- Species
- Tetrao urogallus
- Common name
- Western capercaillie
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 18 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 1
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
One captive specimen was reportedly 18 years old when it died [0001].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 1,095 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 1,095 days
- Incubation
- Clutch size
- (oviparous)
- Clutches per year
- Weight at hatching
- Adult weight
- 2,950 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.066 days-1 (from logistic function)
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- Not yet available
- Basal metabolic rate
- 11.8160 W
- Body mass
- 4010.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.002947 W/g
References
- [0820] John Dunning (2008), CRC Handbook of Avian Body Masses
- [0729] Moller (2006), Sociality, age at first reproduction and senescence: comparative analyses of birds (PubMed)
- [0001] Carey and Judge (2000), Longevity Records: Life Spans of Mammals, Birds, Amphibians, Reptiles, and Fish
- [0732] Starck and Ricklefs (1998), Avian growth rate data set
- [0510] Reynolds and Lee (1996), Phylogenetic analysis of avian energetics: passerines and non-passerines do not differ
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 553893
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account (if available)
- Encyclopaedia of Life
- Search EOL
- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 100830
- Entrez
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- Ageing Literature
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- Images
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