It is hard to guess what a Golden lion tamarin weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Golden lion tamarin (Leontopithecus rosalia) on average weights 593 grams (1.31 lbs).
The Golden lion tamarin is from the family Callitrichidae (genus: Leontopithecus). It is usually born with about 51 grams (0.11 lbs). They can live for up to 24.75 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 26.1 cm (0′ 11″). Usually, Golden lion tamarins have 2 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 golden lion tamarin (Leontopithecus rosalia, Portuguese: mico-leão-dourado [ˈmiku leˈɐ̃w̃ dowˈɾadu], [liˈɐ̃w̃ doˈɾadu]), also known as the golden marmoset, is a small New World monkey of the family Callitrichidae. Native to the Atlantic coastal forests of Brazil, the golden lion tamarin is an endangered species. The range for wild individuals is spread across four places along southeastern Brazil, with a recent census estimating 3,200 individuals left in the wild and a captive population maintaining about 490 individuals among 150 zoos.
Animals of the same family as a Golden lion tamarin
We found other animals of the Callitrichidae family:
- Black-mantled tamarin with a weight of 450 grams
- Red-handed tamarin with a weight of 541 grams
- Emperor tamarin with a weight of 409 grams
- Common marmoset with a weight of 291 grams
- Wied’s marmoset with a weight of 375 grams
- Black-tufted marmoset with a weight of 340 grams
- Pygmy marmoset with a weight of 124 grams
- Mottle-faced tamarin with a weight of 803 grams
- Golden-mantled tamarin with a weight of 385 grams
- Santarem marmoset with a weight of 375 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Golden lion tamarin
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Leontopithecus rosalia:
- Bulmer’s fruit bat bringing 621 grams to the scale
- Mountain ground squirrel bringing 625 grams to the scale
- Eastern spotted skunk bringing 568 grams to the scale
- Giant tree-rat bringing 584 grams to the scale
- Eastern lowland olingo bringing 620 grams to the scale
- Giant tree-rat bringing 584 grams to the scale
- New Guinean quoll bringing 611 grams to the scale
- Eastern gray squirrel bringing 546 grams to the scale
- Rakali bringing 626 grams to the scale
- Beecroft’s flying squirrel bringing 479 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Golden lion tamarin
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Golden lion tamarin:
- Magellanic tuco-tuco with a size of 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Mountain beaver with a size of 30.7 cm (1′ 1″)
- Gray-bellied night monkey with a size of 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Northern quoll with a size of 21.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- White-tailed antsangy with a size of 22.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- White-footed rabbit-rat with a size of 25 cm (0′ 10″)
- Abert’s squirrel with a size of 26.9 cm (0′ 11″)
- Pousargues’s mongoose with a size of 29 cm (1′ 0″)
- Pied tamarin with a size of 23.9 cm (0′ 10″)
- Giant Atlantic tree-rat with a size of 28.2 cm (1′ 0″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Golden lion tamarin
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Golden lion tamarin:
- Moon forest shrew
- American badger
- White-throated woodrat
- Spix’s yellow-toothed cavy
- Striped hyena
- Kimberley rock rat
- Low’s squirrel
- Marsh rabbit
- Fishing cat
- Large tree mouse
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Golden lion tamarin
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Golden lion tamarin:
- Waterbuck with an average maximal age of 19.92 years
- Jaguar with an average maximal age of 23 years
- Leopard with an average maximal age of 23 years
- Galápagos fur seal with an average maximal age of 22 years
- Arabian oryx with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Sika deer with an average maximal age of 25.42 years
- Sambar deer with an average maximal age of 26.42 years
- Muskox with an average maximal age of 24 years
- Barbary macaque with an average maximal age of 22 years
- Geoffroy’s spider monkey with an average maximal age of 27.25 years