AnAge entry for Nycticebus coucang

Classification (HAGRID: 02456)

Taxonomy: Kingdom: Animalia
    Phylum: Chordata
        Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
            Order: Primates (Taxon entry)
                Family: Lorisidae
                    Genus: Nycticebus
Species: Nycticebus coucang
Common name: Slow loris
Synonyms: Lemur tardigradus, Nycticebus sumatrensis, Nycticebus coucang brachycephalus, Nycticebus coucang buku, Nycticebus coucang hilleri, Nycticebus coucang insularis, Nycticebus tardigradus malaiana, Nycticebus coucang natunae

Maximum longevity: 25.8 years (captivity)
Source: ref. 671
Sample size: Medium
Data quality: Acceptable
Observations: One captive specimen lived 25.8 years [0671]. There is also one report of a 26.5 year old animal [0574], which has not been confirmed.

: No information is available on life history. Please contact us if you wish to suggest or contribute data.

[1301] Zehr et al. (2014), Life history profiles for 27 strepsirrhine primate taxa generated using captive data from the Duke Lemur Center (PubMed)
[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
[0574] Hakeem et al. (1996), Brain and life span in primates
[0455] Virginia Hayssen et al. (1993), Asdell's Patterns of Mammalian Reproduction: A Compendium of Species-Specific Data
[0679] Harvey and Clutton-Brock (1985), Life-history variation in primates