AnAge entry for Puma yagouaroundi
Classification (HAGRID: 01791)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Carnivora
Family: Felidae
Genus: Puma
- Species
- Puma yagouaroundi
- Common name
- Jaguarundi
- Synonyms
- Felis yaguarondi, Herpailurus yaguarondi
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 18.6 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Small
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
One captive specimen lived 18.6 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
- 312ºK or 38.4ºC or 101.1ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 9.6900 W
- Body mass
- 8400.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.001154 W/g
References
- [0978] Jones et al. (2009), PanTHERIA: a species-level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals
- [1032] McNab (2008), An analysis of the factors that influence the level and scaling of mammalian BMR (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
- [0610] Ernest (2003), Life history characteristics of placental non-volant mammals
- [0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World
- [0538] Don Wilson and Sue Ruff (1999), The Smithsonian Book of North American Mammals
- [0566] de Oliveira (1998), Herpailurus yaguarondi
- [0455] Virginia Hayssen et al. (1993), Asdell's Patterns of Mammalian Reproduction: A Compendium of Species-Specific Data
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 726257
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