AnAge entry for Galago senegalensis
Classification (HAGRID: 02417)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Primates (Taxon entry)
Family: Galagidae
Genus: Galago
- Species
- Galago senegalensis
- Common name
- Senegal galago
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 17.1 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
Although it has been argued that these animals live up to 18.8 years [0610], record longevity in captivity is 17.1 years [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- No information is available on life history. Please contact us if you wish to suggest or contribute data.
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 311ºK or 37.9ºC or 100.2ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.7640 W
- Body mass
- 171.5 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.004455 W/g
References
- [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
- [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
- [0463] Austad (1997), Small nonhuman primates as potential models of human aging (PubMed)
- [0084] Schmechel et al. (1996), Cholinergic axonal dystrophy and mitochondrial pathology in prosimian primates (PubMed)
- [0164] Holleschau and Rathbun (1994), The effects of age on glutathione peroxidase and glutathione reductase activities in lenses of Old World simians and prosimians (PubMed)
- [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
- [0731] Zullinger et al. (1984), Fitting sigmoid equations to mammalian growth curves
- [0436] Cutler (1979), Evolution of human longevity: a critical overview (PubMed)
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 572899
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account
- Encyclopaedia of Life
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 9465
- Entrez
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- Ageing Literature
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