It is hard to guess what a Buffy-tufted marmoset weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Buffy-tufted marmoset (Callithrix aurita) on average weights 387 grams (0.85 lbs).
The Buffy-tufted marmoset is from the family Callitrichidae (genus: Callithrix). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 24 cm (0′ 10″). Usually, Buffy-tufted marmosets have 2 babies per litter.
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
The buffy-tufted marmoset (Callithrix aurita), also known as the buffy tufted-ear marmoset or white-eared marmoset, is a New World monkey that lives in the forests on the Atlantic coast of southeast Brazil. Of all the marmosets, it has the southernmost range.The buffy-tufted marmoset resembles the common marmoset but is somewhat larger. It has grey-black skin, and the most obvious differences from the common marmoset are its whitish face (“skulllike facial mask” ), brown crown and shorter ear tufts.The buffy-tufted marmoset lives in coastal forests from sea-level up to 500 m. It is diurnal and arboreal, living almost all its life in the trees. It lives in small groups of two to eight animals.Unlike most other marmosets, the buffy-tufted marmoset almost exclusively eats insects. It does not eat tree sap, which is why it has a very small snout. Aside from the insects the buffy-tufted marmoset consumes, this monkey also consumes varying types of flowering plants, such as Combretaceae and legumes, as well as gum, soursops and cacti. Little is known about the buffy-tufted marmoset reproductive patterns. Gestation is approximately 170 days and births are typically of twin offspring.
Animals of the same family as a Buffy-tufted marmoset
We found other animals of the Callitrichidae family:
- Golden-headed lion tamarin with a weight of 573 grams
- Black-mantled tamarin with a weight of 450 grams
- Mottle-faced tamarin with a weight of 803 grams
- Pygmy marmoset with a weight of 124 grams
- White-headed marmoset with a weight of 342 grams
- Goeldi’s marmoset with a weight of 558 grams
- Cotton-top tamarin with a weight of 463 grams
- Superagüi lion tamarin with a weight of 605 grams
- Brown-mantled tamarin with a weight of 393 grams
- Pied tamarin with a weight of 465 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Buffy-tufted marmoset
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Callithrix aurita:
- Russian desman bringing 420 grams to the scale
- Darien pocket gopher bringing 437 grams to the scale
- Greater stick-nest rat bringing 329 grams to the scale
- Yellow-crowned brush-tailed rat bringing 445 grams to the scale
- European hamster bringing 429 grams to the scale
- Tropical pocket gopher bringing 350 grams to the scale
- Southern Amazon red squirrel bringing 403 grams to the scale
- Prevost’s squirrel bringing 400 grams to the scale
- Sulawesi flying fox bringing 383 grams to the scale
- Mahogany glider bringing 361 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Buffy-tufted marmoset
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Buffy-tufted marmoset:
- Smoky flying squirrel with a size of 22.9 cm (0′ 10″)
- Ear-spot squirrel with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Mount Data shrew-rat with a size of 20.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Common echymipera with a size of 27 cm (0′ 11″)
- Jentink’s squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Round-tailed muskrat with a size of 19.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- King rat (animal) with a size of 26 cm (0′ 11″)
- Orange-brown Atlantic tree-rat with a size of 22.7 cm (0′ 9″)
- Ashy-headed flying fox with a size of 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Koslov’s pika with a size of 24 cm (0′ 10″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Buffy-tufted marmoset
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Buffy-tufted marmoset: