AnAge entry for Varecia variegata
Classification (HAGRID: 02816)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Primates (Taxon entry)
Family: Lemuridae
Genus: Varecia
- Species
- Varecia variegata
- Common name
- Black-and-white ruffed lemur, or Ruffed lemur
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 40 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 1350
- Sample size
- Large
- Data quality
- High
- Observations
One wild born female was about 37 years of age when she died at the Duke University Primate Center. The oldest recorded captive-born specimens of this species was 40 years old [1350].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 605 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 649 days
- Gestation
- 98 days
- Weaning
- Clutch or litter size
- 1.9
- Breedings per year
- 1
- Inter-litter interval
- 365 days
- Weight at birth
- 107.17 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 3,482 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 235%
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
- [1142] Kohler et al. (2006), Comparative mortality levels among selected species of captive animals
- [0540] Pochron et al. (2004), Demography, life history, and social structure in Propithecus diadema edwardsi from 1986-2000 in Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar (PubMed)
- [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
- [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
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 572873
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 9455
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