How many baby Guianan squirrel monkeys are in a litter?
A Guianan squirrel monkey (Saimiri sciureus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 164 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. 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 Guianan squirrel monkey grows up to a size of 32.2 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 Guianan squirrel monkey (Saimiri sciureus) is a species of squirrel monkey from Guiana, Venezuela and Brazil. S. scuireus formerly applied to Humboldt’s squirrel monkey and Collins’ squirrel monkey, but genetic research in 2009 and 2015 revealed that these are distinct species.
Other animals of the family Cebidae
Guianan squirrel monkey is a member of the Cebidae, as are these animals:
- Red-bellied titi with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Ollala brothers’s titi with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Tufted capuchin with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Equatorial saki becoming 14.83 years old
- Black-capped squirrel monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Geoffroy’s spider monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black howler with 1 babies per pregnancy
- White-cheeked spider monkey weighting around 6.24 kilograms (13.76 lbs)
- Humboldt’s white-fronted capuchin with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Brown titi with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Guianan squirrel monkey
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Black-headed spider monkey
- Thomson’s gazelle
- Diana monkey
- Mediterranean horseshoe bat
- Common pipistrelle
- Hispaniolan hutia
- Lesser Asiatic yellow bat
- Rusty pipistrelle
- Atlantic white-sided dolphin
- Diademed sifaka
Animals that get as old as a Guianan squirrel monkey
Other animals that usually reach the age of 27 years:
- Guanaco with 28.25 years
- Wolf with 29.5 years
- Brown long-eared bat with 30 years
- Domestic yak with 22.25 years
- Northern plains gray langur with 25 years
- Mona monkey with 30 years
- West Indian manatee with 30 years
- Venezuelan red howler with 25 years
- Crested mona monkey with 24.08 years
- Chamois with 22 years
Animals with the same weight as a Guianan squirrel monkey
What other animals weight around 750 grams (1.65 lbs)?
- Gunnison’s prairie dog weighting 798 grams
- Maned rat weighting 755 grams
- Dark spiny tree-rat weighting 627 grams
- New England cottontail weighting 814 grams
- Central American squirrel monkey weighting 714 grams
- Peruvian night monkey weighting 800 grams
- Northern greater galago weighting 812 grams
- Hispaniolan solenodon weighting 893 grams
- Nancy Ma’s night monkey weighting 791 grams
- Painted ringtail possum weighting 642 grams
Animals with the same size as a Guianan squirrel monkey
Also reaching around 32.2 cm (1′ 1″) in size do these animals:
- Conover’s tuco-tuco gets as big as 25.8 cm (0′ 11″)
- Mimic tree rat gets as big as 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Giant white-tailed rat gets as big as 28.3 cm (1′ 0″)
- Black-headed night monkey gets as big as 35.7 cm (1′ 3″)
- Meerkat gets as big as 28.6 cm (1′ 0″)
- Short-tailed chinchilla gets as big as 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- New Britain water rat gets as big as 29.2 cm (1′ 0″)
- Northern sportive lemur gets as big as 28 cm (1′ 0″)
- Pygmy rabbit gets as big as 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Chinese pangolin gets as big as 37.9 cm (1′ 3″)