It is hard to guess what a Red-handed tamarin weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Red-handed tamarin (Saguinus midas) on average weights 541 grams (1.19 lbs).
The Red-handed tamarin is from the family Callitrichidae (genus: Saguinus). It is usually born with about 39 grams (0.09 lbs). They can live for up to 15.33 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 26.5 cm (0′ 11″). Usually, Red-handed 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 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.
Animals of the same family as a Red-handed tamarin
We found other animals of the Callitrichidae family:
- Geoffroy’s tamarin with a weight of 493 grams
- Silvery marmoset with a weight of 376 grams
- Golden-headed lion tamarin with a weight of 573 grams
- White-lipped tamarin with a weight of 509 grams
- Goeldi’s marmoset with a weight of 558 grams
- White-headed marmoset with a weight of 342 grams
- Common marmoset with a weight of 291 grams
- Black lion tamarin with a weight of 656 grams
- Pygmy marmoset with a weight of 124 grams
- Black-mantled tamarin with a weight of 450 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Red-handed tamarin
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Saguinus midas:
- Pygmy rabbit bringing 437 grams to the scale
- Siberian weasel bringing 531 grams to the scale
- Numbat bringing 517 grams to the scale
- Pied tamarin bringing 465 grams to the scale
- Epixerus bringing 559 grams to the scale
- Lutrine opossum bringing 556 grams to the scale
- Lesser bamboo rat bringing 472 grams to the scale
- Striped bandicoot bringing 542 grams to the scale
- Bulmer’s fruit bat bringing 621 grams to the scale
- Central Texas pocket gopher bringing 600 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Red-handed tamarin
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Red-handed tamarin:
- Golden lion tamarin with a size of 26.1 cm (0′ 11″)
- Sardinian pika with a size of 22.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- New Britain water rat with a size of 29.2 cm (1′ 0″)
- Dinagat bushy-tailed cloud rat with a size of 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Greater grison with a size of 25.7 cm (0′ 11″)
- Isabel naked-tailed rat with a size of 27 cm (0′ 11″)
- Müller’s giant Sunda rat with a size of 23.9 cm (0′ 10″)
- Indonesian mountain weasel with a size of 30.9 cm (1′ 1″)
- Mimic tree rat with a size of 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Northern sportive lemur with a size of 28 cm (1′ 0″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Red-handed tamarin
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Red-handed tamarin:
- California kangaroo rat
- Transcaspian vole
- Glacier rat
- Greater bilby
- Mayor’s mouse
- Gobi jerboa
- African black shrew
- Lichtenstein’s jerboa
- Golden-headed lion tamarin
- Long-nosed echymipera
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Red-handed tamarin
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Red-handed tamarin:
- Suni with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Yellow-bellied glider with an average maximal age of 16 years
- Harbour porpoise with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur with an average maximal age of 15.25 years
- European rabbit with an average maximal age of 18 years
- Wolverine with an average maximal age of 18 years
- Arctocephalus forsteri with an average maximal age of 15 years
- White-nosed coati with an average maximal age of 17.67 years
- Nilgiri tahr with an average maximal age of 17.25 years
- Arabian tahr with an average maximal age of 14 years