How many baby Bare-eared squirrel monkeys are in a litter?
A Bare-eared squirrel monkey (Saimiri ustus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 108 grams (0.24 lbs) and measure 3.7 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Cebidae family (genus: Saimiri). An adult Bare-eared squirrel monkey grows up to a size of 30.9 cm (1′ 1″).
To have a reference: Humans obviously usually have a litter size of one ;). Their babies are in the womb of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks) and reach an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). They weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual, and reach an average age of 75 years.
The bare-eared squirrel monkey (Saimiri ustus) is a squirrel monkey endemic to Brazil and possibly eastern Bolivia.
Other animals of the family Cebidae
Bare-eared squirrel monkey is a member of the Cebidae, as are these animals:
- Collared titi with 1 babies per pregnancy
- White-bellied spider monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Kaapori capuchin weighting around 3 kilograms (6.61 lbs)
- Atlantic titi with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Brown woolly monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Spix’s night monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- White-faced saki with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bald uakari with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Gray-bellied night monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red-faced spider monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Bare-eared squirrel monkey
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Southern naked-tailed armadillo
- Big hairy armadillo
- Pale-throated sloth
- Western red colobus
- Pemba flying fox
- Yellow-tailed woolly monkey
- Mashona mole-rat
- Agile gibbon
- Soemmerring’s gazelle
- Southern African vlei rat
Animals with the same weight as a Bare-eared squirrel monkey
What other animals weight around 888 grams (1.96 lbs)?
- Brown titi weighting 851 grams
- Japanese marten usually reaching 1 kgs (2.2 lbs)
- Poncelet’s giant rat usually reaching 1 kgs (2.2 lbs)
- Mottle-faced tamarin weighting 803 grams
- Yellow ground squirrel weighting 779 grams
- Raffray’s bandicoot weighting 905 grams
- Black squirrel monkey weighting 784 grams
- Black-bearded flying fox weighting 872 grams
- European hedgehog weighting 789 grams
- Gray-bellied night monkey weighting 873 grams
Animals with the same size as a Bare-eared squirrel monkey
Also reaching around 30.9 cm (1′ 1″) in size do these animals:
- Tailless tenrec gets as big as 32.7 cm (1′ 1″)
- European polecat gets as big as 35.9 cm (1′ 3″)
- Moluccan flying fox gets as big as 25.3 cm (0′ 10″)
- New England cottontail gets as big as 36.3 cm (1′ 3″)
- Gray-backed sportive lemur gets as big as 25.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Brown four-eyed opossum gets as big as 26.1 cm (0′ 11″)
- Peters’s squirrel gets as big as 26.8 cm (0′ 11″)
- Humboldt’s hog-nosed skunk gets as big as 35.4 cm (1′ 2″)
- Black dwarf porcupine gets as big as 35.2 cm (1′ 2″)
- Xerus erythropus gets as big as 31.2 cm (1′ 1″)