AnAge entry for Varecia rubra
Classification (HAGRID: 02815)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Primates (Taxon entry)
Family: Lemuridae
Genus: Varecia
- Species
- Varecia rubra
- Common name
- Red ruffed lemur
- Synonyms
- Prosimia erythromela
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 37.5 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 1301
- Sample size
- Small
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
A red ruffed lemur from the Duke Lemur center lived to be 37.5 years old [1301].
Unlike other species, females that produce more offspring have been shown to live longer [1350].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 609 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 650 days
- Gestation
- 98 days
- Weaning
- Clutch or litter size
- 2.2
- Breedings per year
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- 109.73 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 3,601 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 219%
Metabolism
No information on metabolism is available.
References
- [1350] Tidiere et al. (2017), High reproductive effort is associated with decreasing mortality late in life in captive ruffed lemurs (PubMed)
- [1301] Zehr et al. (2014), Life history profiles for 27 strepsirrhine primate taxa generated using captive data from the Duke Lemur Center (PubMed)
- [0978] Jones et al. (2009), PanTHERIA: a species-level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 944080
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- Taxonomy ID 554167
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