How many baby Black-mantled tamarins are in a litter?
A Black-mantled tamarin (Saguinus nigricollis) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 43 grams (0.09 lbs) and measure 3.7 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Callitrichidae family (genus: Saguinus). An adult Black-mantled tamarin grows up to a size of 26.5 cm (0′ 11″).
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 black-mantled tamarin, Leontocebus nigricollis, is a species of saddle-back tamarin from the northwestern Amazon in far western Brazil, southeastern Colombia, northeastern Peru and Ecuador.There are 3 subspecies:Spix’s black mantle tamarin, Leontocebus nigricollis nigricollisGraells’s tamarin or Graells’ black-mantle tamarin, Leontocebus nigricollis graellsiHernandez-Camacho’s black-mantle tamarin, Leontocebus nigricollis hernandeziGraells’s tamarin has sometimes been considered to be a separate species. The body length is 15–28 cm. The tail length is 27–42 cm.Family groups consisting of a male, a female and 1 or 2 young live in a defined territory – the female marks branches on the boundaries of the territory with secretions of her anal glands and urine. The female gives birth to 2 young after a gestation of 140 to 150 days. It mainly eats insects, leaves, and fruit.
Other animals of the family Callitrichidae
Black-mantled tamarin is a member of the Callitrichidae, as are these animals:
- Geoffroy’s tamarin with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Black lion tamarin weighting only 656 grams
- Brown-mantled tamarin with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mottle-faced tamarin weighting only 803 grams
- Pied tamarin with 2 babies per pregnancy
- White-headed marmoset weighting only 342 grams
- White-lipped tamarin with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Superagüi lion tamarin weighting only 605 grams
- Golden-headed lion tamarin with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Pygmy marmoset with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Black-mantled tamarin
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Tamaraw
- Bearded seal
- Acuminate horseshoe bat
- Phayre’s leaf monkey
- Ollala brothers’s titi
- Ryukyu flying fox
- Sangihe tarsier
- Common brown lemur
- Burchell’s zebra
- Pagai Island macaque
Animals that get as old as a Black-mantled tamarin
Other animals that usually reach the age of 15.17 years:
- Hamlyn’s monkey with 13.5 years
- Common tsessebe with 18 years
- Mexican free-tailed bat with 15 years
- Gray fox with 15 years
- Striped polecat with 13.33 years
- Allied rock-wallaby with 13 years
- Caracal with 17 years
- Grey rhebok with 12.25 years
- Guinea pig with 14.75 years
- Long-tailed goral with 13.17 years
Animals with the same weight as a Black-mantled tamarin
What other animals weight around 450 grams (0.99 lbs)?
- Painted tree-rat weighting 518 grams
- Hispid pocket gopher weighting 499 grams
- Sulawesi flying fox weighting 383 grams
- Short-tailed chinchilla weighting 500 grams
- Greater dwarf lemur weighting 447 grams
- Columbian ground squirrel weighting 471 grams
- Giant Atlantic tree-rat weighting 502 grams
- Checkered elephant shrew weighting 424 grams
- Long-tailed chinchilla weighting 480 grams
- New Guinea waterside rat weighting 526 grams