How many baby Red-handed tamarins are in a litter?
A Red-handed tamarin (Saguinus midas) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 138 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 Red-handed 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 red-handed tamarin (Saguinus midas), also known as the golden-handed tamarin or Midas tamarin, is a New World monkey belonging to the family Callitrichidae.
Other animals of the family Callitrichidae
Red-handed tamarin is a member of the Callitrichidae, as are these animals:
- Mottle-faced tamarin weighting only 803 grams
- Golden lion tamarin with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Black-tufted marmoset with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Geoffroy’s tamarin with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Santarem marmoset becoming 15 years old
- Common marmoset with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Moustached tamarin with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Emperor tamarin becoming 20.17 years old
- White-headed marmoset weighting only 342 grams
- Black lion tamarin weighting only 656 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Red-handed tamarin
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Cougar
- Rusty-spotted genet
- Eastern common cuscus
- Spotted-necked otter
- Silvery greater galago
- American badger
- Mountain treeshrew
- Sonoran woodrat
- Target rat
- Florida mouse
Animals that get as old as a Red-handed tamarin
Other animals that usually reach the age of 15.33 years:
- Arabian tahr with 14 years
- Smooth-coated otter with 15 years
- Indian muntjac with 17.58 years
- White-nosed saki with 17 years
- Mohol bushbaby with 16.5 years
- Harbour porpoise with 15 years
- Asian golden cat with 18 years
- Black-crested Sumatran langur with 16 years
- Hamlyn’s monkey with 13.5 years
- Greater glider with 15 years
Animals with the same weight as a Red-handed tamarin
What other animals weight around 541 grams (1.19 lbs)?
- Ring-tailed ground squirrel weighting 500 grams
- Allegheny woodrat weighting 447 grams
- Abert’s squirrel weighting 623 grams
- Michoacan pocket gopher weighting 474 grams
- Cotton-top tamarin weighting 463 grams
- Greater dwarf lemur weighting 447 grams
- Painted ringtail possum weighting 639 grams
- Columbian ground squirrel weighting 471 grams
- Bolivian tuco-tuco weighting 462 grams
- Giant Atlantic tree-rat weighting 502 grams
Animals with the same size as a Red-handed tamarin
Also reaching around 26.5 cm (0′ 11″) in size do these animals:
- New Guinea waterside rat gets as big as 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Rock squirrel gets as big as 27.3 cm (0′ 11″)
- Chinese red pika gets as big as 24.5 cm (0′ 10″)
- Black-footed tree-rat gets as big as 30.1 cm (1′ 0″)
- Striped possum gets as big as 25.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Painted ringtail possum gets as big as 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Lowland ringtail possum gets as big as 22.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Mimic tree rat gets as big as 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- New Britain water rat gets as big as 29.2 cm (1′ 0″)
- Western gray squirrel gets as big as 29.4 cm (1′ 0″)