How many baby Pied tamarins are in a litter?
A Pied tamarin (Saguinus bicolor) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 158 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 3.7 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Callitrichidae family (genus: Saguinus). An adult Pied 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 pied tamarin (Saguinus bicolor) is a critically endangered primate species found in a restricted area in the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest.
Other animals of the family Callitrichidae
Pied tamarin is a member of the Callitrichidae, as are these animals:
- Black-tufted marmoset with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Emperor tamarin becoming 20.17 years old
- Silvery marmoset with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Golden lion tamarin with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Black-mantled tamarin with 1 babies per pregnancy
- White-footed tamarin with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Buffy-tufted marmoset with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Geoffroy’s tamarin with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Moustached tamarin with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Buffy-headed marmoset with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Pied tamarin
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Large treeshrew
- Mountain treeshrew
- Babault’s mouse shrew
- Horsfield’s treeshrew
- Crested servaline genet
- Short-tailed gymnure
- Black-and-white ruffed lemur
- Crested agouti
- Turbo shrew
- Hinde’s rock rat
Animals with the same weight as a Pied tamarin
What other animals weight around 465 grams (1.03 lbs)?
- Montane bamboo rat weighting 382 grams
- Goya tuco-tuco weighting 400 grams
- Wied’s marmoset weighting 375 grams
- Namaqua dune mole-rat weighting 389 grams
- Ring-tailed ground squirrel weighting 500 grams
- Columbian ground squirrel weighting 471 grams
- Collie’s squirrel weighting 498 grams
- European ground squirrel weighting 396 grams
- Santarem marmoset weighting 375 grams
- Japen rat weighting 380 grams
Animals with the same size as a Pied tamarin
Also reaching around 23.9 cm (0′ 10″) in size do these animals:
- Northeast African mole-rat gets as big as 19.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Alston’s mouse opossum gets as big as 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Sonoran woodrat gets as big as 19.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Bolivian tuco-tuco gets as big as 22.1 cm (0′ 9″)
- Amazon bamboo rat gets as big as 28.5 cm (1′ 0″)
- Buffy-tufted marmoset gets as big as 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Javan mongoose gets as big as 27.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Chacoan tuco-tuco gets as big as 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Yellow-bellied weasel gets as big as 26 cm (0′ 11″)
- Lyle’s flying fox gets as big as 23.7 cm (0′ 10″)