It is hard to guess what a Moustached tamarin weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Moustached tamarin (Saguinus mystax) on average weights 557 grams (1.23 lbs).
The Moustached tamarin is from the family Callitrichidae (genus: Saguinus). It is usually born with about 46 grams (0.1 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 26.5 cm (0′ 11″). Usually, Moustached tamarins 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 moustached tamarin or Spix’s moustached tamarin (Saguinus mystax) is a tamarin found in tropical forests in Brazil, Bolivia and Peru. It is black with a white moustache, white nose, and brownish back. Its diet consists mainly of fruits, tree gum and insects. In the north-eastern Peruvian Amazonia, frogs are included in their diet due reduced fruit availability.There are two subspecies of the moustached tamarin:Spix’s moustached tamarin, Saguinus mystax mystaxWhite-rumped moustached tamarin, Saguinus mystax plutoIt frequently associates with Geoffroy’s saddle-back tamarin and with brown-mantled tamarin.
Animals of the same family as a Moustached tamarin
We found other animals of the Callitrichidae family:
- Wied’s marmoset with a weight of 375 grams
- Golden-headed lion tamarin with a weight of 573 grams
- Buffy-tufted marmoset with a weight of 387 grams
- Emperor tamarin with a weight of 409 grams
- Golden-mantled tamarin with a weight of 385 grams
- Geoffroy’s tamarin with a weight of 493 grams
- White-lipped tamarin with a weight of 509 grams
- Brown-mantled tamarin with a weight of 393 grams
- Cotton-top tamarin with a weight of 463 grams
- Goeldi’s marmoset with a weight of 558 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Moustached tamarin
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Saguinus mystax:
- Goeldi’s marmoset bringing 558 grams to the scale
- California ground squirrel bringing 598 grams to the scale
- Broad-striped Malagasy mongoose bringing 550 grams to the scale
- Giant Atlantic tree-rat bringing 502 grams to the scale
- Kashmir flying squirrel bringing 510 grams to the scale
- Red-handed tamarin bringing 541 grams to the scale
- Solomons flying fox bringing 661 grams to the scale
- Gray-backed sportive lemur bringing 506 grams to the scale
- Siberian weasel bringing 531 grams to the scale
- Bolivian tuco-tuco bringing 462 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Moustached tamarin
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Moustached tamarin: