How many baby Buffy-headed marmosets are in a litter?
A Buffy-headed marmoset (Callithrix flaviceps) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 140 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 35 grams (0.08 lbs) and measure 12.5 cm (0′ 5″). They are a member of the Callitrichidae family (genus: Callithrix). An adult Buffy-headed marmoset grows up to a size of 24 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 buffy-headed marmoset (Callithrix flaviceps) is a rare species of marmoset endemic to the rainforests of south-eastern Brazil. It occurs in southern Espírito Santo and possibly northern Rio de Janeiro and its distribution extends into Minas Gerais.
Other animals of the family Callitrichidae
Buffy-headed marmoset is a member of the Callitrichidae, as are these animals:
- Silvery marmoset with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Golden-mantled tamarin weighting only 385 grams
- Santarem marmoset becoming 15 years old
- Geoffroy’s tamarin with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Golden lion tamarin with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Wied’s marmoset weighting only 375 grams
- Red-handed tamarin with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Black-mantled tamarin with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pied tamarin with 2 babies per pregnancy
- White-footed tamarin with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Buffy-headed marmoset
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Indomalayan pencil-tailed tree mouse
- Fennec fox
- Crab-eating raccoon
- Grassland mosaic-tailed rat
- Bastard big-footed mouse
- Banner-tailed kangaroo rat
- Red hocicudo
- Eastern rat
- Southern African spiny mouse
- Jamaican coney
Animals with the same weight as a Buffy-headed marmoset
What other animals weight around 374 grams (0.82 lbs)?
- Eastern small-toothed rat weighting 357 grams
- Colburn’s tuco-tuco weighting 400 grams
- Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur weighting 326 grams
- Masoala fork-marked lemur weighting 409 grams
- Lesser bilby weighting 364 grams
- Black-tufted marmoset weighting 340 grams
- Prevost’s squirrel weighting 400 grams
- Red-tailed squirrel weighting 319 grams
- Goya tuco-tuco weighting 400 grams
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat weighting 400 grams
Animals with the same size as a Buffy-headed marmoset
Also reaching around 24 cm (0′ 10″) in size do these animals:
- Mariana fruit bat gets as big as 21.7 cm (0′ 9″)
- Molina’s hog-nosed skunk gets as big as 21.1 cm (0′ 9″)
- Rufous elephant shrew gets as big as 25 cm (0′ 10″)
- Pygmy rabbit gets as big as 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Sulawesi naked-backed fruit bat gets as big as 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Geelvink Bay flying fox gets as big as 19.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Northern Palawan tree squirrel gets as big as 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Silvery lutung gets as big as 25.8 cm (0′ 11″)
- Northern sportive lemur gets as big as 28 cm (1′ 0″)
- Red-legged sun squirrel gets as big as 23.8 cm (0′ 10″)