It is hard to guess what a Bare-eared squirrel monkey weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Bare-eared squirrel monkey (Saimiri ustus) on average weights 888 grams (1.96 lbs).
The Bare-eared squirrel monkey is from the family Cebidae (genus: Saimiri). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 30.9 cm (1′ 1″). Usually, Bare-eared squirrel monkeys have 1 babies per litter.
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
The bare-eared squirrel monkey (Saimiri ustus) is a squirrel monkey endemic to Brazil and possibly eastern Bolivia.
Animals of the same family as a Bare-eared squirrel monkey
We found other animals of the Cebidae family:
- Gray-bellied night monkey with a weight of 873 grams
- Mantled howler bringing 6.58 kilos (14.51 lbs) to the scale
- White-bellied spider monkey bringing 6.71 kilos (14.79 lbs) to the scale
- Tufted capuchin bringing 2.76 kilos (6.08 lbs) to the scale
- Spix’s night monkey with a weight of 873 grams
- Geoffroy’s spider monkey bringing 7.6 kilos (16.76 lbs) to the scale
- Rio Tapajós saki bringing 2.31 kilos (5.09 lbs) to the scale
- Peruvian spider monkey bringing 7.09 kilos (15.63 lbs) to the scale
- White-footed saki bringing 2.8 kilos (6.17 lbs) to the scale
- Three-striped night monkey with a weight of 912 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Bare-eared squirrel monkey
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Saimiri ustus:
- Common ringtail possum bringing 895 grams to the scale
- Gunnison’s prairie dog bringing 798 grams to the scale
- Tres Marias rabbit bringing 964 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed ground squirrel bringing 743 grams to the scale
- Three-striped night monkey bringing 912 grams to the scale
- Andean squirrel bringing 803 grams to the scale
- Spotted giant flying squirrel with a weight of 1.04 kilos (2.29 lbs)
- Western woolly lemur bringing 828 grams to the scale
- Desert cottontail bringing 882 grams to the scale
- Mimic tree rat bringing 975 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Bare-eared squirrel monkey
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Bare-eared squirrel monkey:
- Giant otter shrew with a size of 32 cm (1′ 1″)
- Collared titi with a size of 29.4 cm (1′ 0″)
- Slender mongoose with a size of 33 cm (1′ 1″)
- Volcano rabbit with a size of 29.7 cm (1′ 0″)
- European polecat with a size of 35.9 cm (1′ 3″)
- Giant naked-tailed rat with a size of 31 cm (1′ 1″)
- Mountain cottontail with a size of 32.4 cm (1′ 1″)
- Black-headed night monkey with a size of 35.7 cm (1′ 3″)
- Arizona gray squirrel with a size of 26.4 cm (0′ 11″)
- Peters’s squirrel with a size of 26.8 cm (0′ 11″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Bare-eared squirrel monkey
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Bare-eared squirrel monkey: