How many baby Brown-mantled tamarins are in a litter?
A Brown-mantled tamarin (Saguinus fuscicollis) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 148 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 39 grams (0.09 lbs) and measure 3.7 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Callitrichidae family (genus: Saguinus). An adult Brown-mantled tamarin grows up to a size of 23.9 cm (0′ 10″).
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 brown-mantled tamarin (Leontocebus fuscicollis), also known as Spix’s saddle-back tamarin, is a species of saddle-back tamarin from South America. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil and Peru.The brown-mantled tamarin is sympatric with the pygmy marmoset, sharing the same habitat in South American counties, and will often raid the gum holes of this species. It sometimes associates with the red-bellied tamarin.Brown-mantled tamarins occupy an extensive area of northern Amazonia.There are 4 subspecies:L. f. avilapiresi, Avila Pires’ saddle-back tamarinL. f. fuscicollis, Spix’s saddle-back tamarinL. f. mura, Mura’s saddleback tamarinL. f. primitivus, Lako’s saddleback tamarinCruz Lima’s saddle-back tamarin, Lesson’s saddle-back tamarin, Illiger’s saddle-back tamarin, the red-mantle saddle-back tamarin, the Andean saddle-back tamarin, Geoffroy’s saddle-back tamarin and Weddell’s saddle-back tamarin were all formerly considered subspecies of the brown-mantled tamarin.
Other animals of the family Callitrichidae
Brown-mantled tamarin is a member of the Callitrichidae, as are these animals:
- Emperor tamarin becoming 20.17 years old
- Superagüi lion tamarin weighting only 605 grams
- Cotton-top tamarin with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Santarem marmoset becoming 15 years old
- Black-tufted marmoset with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Moustached tamarin with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Wied’s marmoset weighting only 375 grams
- Silvery marmoset with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Red-handed tamarin with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Black lion tamarin weighting only 656 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Brown-mantled tamarin
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Asian elephant
- Sei whale
- Gemsbok
- Bay duiker
- Patas monkey
- Molossops planirostris
- Dian’s tarsier
- Prehensile-tailed hutia
- Anoa
- Natal red rock hare
Animals that get as old as a Brown-mantled tamarin
Other animals that usually reach the age of 24.5 years:
- West Caucasian tur with 20.5 years
- Aardwolf with 25 years
- Grizzled tree-kangaroo with 20 years
- Tiger with 26.25 years
- Blue wildebeest with 21.5 years
- Brown fur seal with 21 years
- Kinkajou with 29 years
- White-faced saki with 20.67 years
- Northern plains gray langur with 25 years
- Moustached guenon with 23 years
Animals with the same weight as a Brown-mantled tamarin
What other animals weight around 393 grams (0.87 lbs)?
- Epixerus ebii wilsoni weighting 422 grams
- Red bush squirrel weighting 365 grams
- Geelvink Bay flying fox weighting 351 grams
- Ornate flying fox weighting 335 grams
- Small flying fox weighting 434 grams
- Greater mole-rat weighting 470 grams
- European hamster weighting 429 grams
- Southern Amazon red squirrel weighting 403 grams
- Red-legged sun squirrel weighting 333 grams
- Wied’s marmoset weighting 375 grams