AnAge entry for Tadarida brasiliensis
Classification (HAGRID: 01981)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Chiroptera (Taxon entry)
Family: Molossidae
Genus: Tadarida
- Species
- Tadarida brasiliensis
- Common name
- Brazilian free-tailed bat
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 12 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Tiny
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
In the wild, these animals live at least 8 years [0477]. One 12 year old specimen was still alive in captivity [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 273 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 547 days
- Gestation
- 78 days
- Weaning
- Litter size
- 1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1
- Inter-litter interval
- 365 days
- Weight at birth
- 2.8 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 12.5 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.112 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
- Maximum longevity residual
- 167%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 309ºK or 36.0ºC or 96.8ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.1170 W
- Body mass
- 13.3 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.008797 W/g
References
- [1136] Gomes et al. (2011), Comparative biology of mammalian telomeres: hypotheses on ancestral states and the roles of telomeres in longevity determination (PubMed)
- [0906] Salmon et al. (2009), The long lifespan of two bat species is correlated with resistance to protein oxidation and enhanced protein homeostasis (PubMed)
- [0671] Richard Weigl (2005), Longevity of Mammals in Captivity; from the Living Collections of the World
- [0477] Brunet-Rossinni and Austad (2004), Ageing studies on bats: a review (PubMed)
- [0036] Savage et al. (2004), The predominance of quarter-power scaling in biology
- [0971] Jones et al. (2003), Biological correlates of extinction risk in bats (PubMed)
- [0420] White and Seymour (2003), Mammalian basal metabolic rate is proportional to body mass2/3 (PubMed)
- [0730] Smith et al. (2003), Body mass of late Quaternary mammals
- [0424] Wilkinson and South (2002), Life history, ecology and longevity in bats (PubMed)
- [0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World
- [0480] Widmaier et al. (1996), High plasma cholesterol, but low triglycerides and plaque-free arteries, in Mexican free-tailed bats (PubMed)
- [0455] Virginia Hayssen et al. (1993), Asdell's Patterns of Mammalian Reproduction: A Compendium of Species-Specific Data
- [0478] Baudry et al. (1986), Low levels of calpain activity in Chiroptera brain: implications for mechanisms of aging (PubMed)
- [0731] Zullinger et al. (1984), Fitting sigmoid equations to mammalian growth curves
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 180088
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 9438
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