It is hard to guess what a Mottle-faced tamarin weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Mottle-faced tamarin (Saguinus inustus) on average weights 803 grams (1.77 lbs).
The Mottle-faced tamarin is from the family Callitrichidae (genus: Saguinus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 23.9 cm (0′ 10″).
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 mottle-faced tamarin (Saguinus inustus) is a species of tamarin from South America. It is found in Brazil and Colombia.
Animals of the same family as a Mottle-faced tamarin
We found other animals of the Callitrichidae family:
- Black lion tamarin with a weight of 656 grams
- Santarem marmoset with a weight of 375 grams
- Pied tamarin with a weight of 465 grams
- Superagüi lion tamarin with a weight of 605 grams
- Emperor tamarin with a weight of 409 grams
- Common marmoset with a weight of 291 grams
- White-footed tamarin with a weight of 457 grams
- Silvery marmoset with a weight of 376 grams
- White-headed marmoset with a weight of 342 grams
- Golden-headed lion tamarin with a weight of 573 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Mottle-faced tamarin
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Saguinus inustus:
- New England cottontail bringing 814 grams to the scale
- Angolan slender mongoose bringing 750 grams to the scale
- Common echymipera bringing 825 grams to the scale
- Yellow mongoose bringing 694 grams to the scale
- Solomons flying fox bringing 661 grams to the scale
- Moluccan flying fox bringing 728 grams to the scale
- Gray-bellied night monkey bringing 873 grams to the scale
- Molina’s hog-nosed skunk bringing 960 grams to the scale
- Swynnerton’s bush squirrel bringing 675 grams to the scale
- Western white-eared giant rat bringing 932 grams to the scale