AnAge entry for Vicugna vicugna
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Camelidae
Genus: Vicugna
- Species
- Vicugna vicugna
- Common name
- Vicugna
- Maximum longevity
- 31.6 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
- No observations are presently available
- Female sexual maturity
- 730 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 730 days
- Gestation
- 340 days
- Weaning
- 213 days
- Litter size
- 1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 0.7
- Inter-litter interval
- 548 days
- Weight at birth
- 5,740 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 50,000 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.0057 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
- Maximum longevity residual
- 123%
- Typical body temperature
- 313ºK or 39.9ºC or 103.8ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- Not yet available
- [0671] Richard Weigl (2005), Longevity of Mammals in Captivity; from the Living Collections of the World
- [0610] Ernest (2003), Life history characteristics of placental non-volant mammals
- [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
- [0731] Zullinger et al. (1984), Fitting sigmoid equations to mammalian growth curves
- [1050] Bligh et al. (1975), Studies of body temperature patterns in South American Camelidae
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- ITIS 625031
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- Taxonomy ID 9843
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