It is hard to guess what a White-footed tamarin weights. But we have the answer:
An adult White-footed tamarin (Saguinus leucopus) on average weights 457 grams (1.01 lbs).
The White-footed tamarin is from the family Callitrichidae (genus: Saguinus). It is usually born with about 43 grams (0.09 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 24 cm (0′ 10″). Usually, White-footed 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 white-footed tamarin (Saguinus leucopus) is a tamarin species endemic to Colombia. It is a silvery brown colour with pale streaks and russet underparts, and is very similar in appearance to the cotton-top tamarin, from which it is separated by the Atrato River. It is thought that the two species diverged during the Pleistocene, at a time when a sea occupied the area between their present ranges. This tamarin is an arboreal species, living in small family groups in the canopy. Females give birth to one to three young after a gestation period of about 140 days. This species has a relatively small range and is under threat from destruction and fragmentation of the forest in which it lives and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed its conservation status as “endangered”.
Animals of the same family as a White-footed tamarin
We found other animals of the Callitrichidae family:
- White-headed marmoset with a weight of 342 grams
- Red-handed tamarin with a weight of 541 grams
- Black-tufted marmoset with a weight of 340 grams
- Black-mantled tamarin with a weight of 450 grams
- Pygmy marmoset with a weight of 124 grams
- White-lipped tamarin with a weight of 509 grams
- Buffy-headed marmoset with a weight of 374 grams
- Brown-mantled tamarin with a weight of 393 grams
- Wied’s marmoset with a weight of 375 grams
- Common marmoset with a weight of 291 grams
Animals with the same weight as a White-footed tamarin
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Saguinus leucopus:
- Mexican gray squirrel bringing 456 grams to the scale
- Moluccan naked-backed fruit bat bringing 465 grams to the scale
- Hispid pocket gopher bringing 499 grams to the scale
- Merriam’s pocket gopher bringing 419 grams to the scale
- Indonesian mountain weasel bringing 466 grams to the scale
- Colombian soft-furred spiny rat bringing 394 grams to the scale
- New Guinea waterside rat bringing 526 grams to the scale
- San Luis tuco-tuco bringing 400 grams to the scale
- Oaxacan pocket gopher bringing 499 grams to the scale
- Social tuco-tuco bringing 400 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a White-footed tamarin
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as White-footed tamarin:
- Allen’s woodrat with a size of 22.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Pallas’s squirrel with a size of 21.1 cm (0′ 9″)
- Gray tree rat with a size of 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Southern white-breasted hedgehog with a size of 23.1 cm (0′ 10″)
- Ili pika with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Pygmy ringtail possum with a size of 19.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Sardinian pika with a size of 22.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Mexican fox squirrel with a size of 28.3 cm (1′ 0″)
- Sulawesi naked-backed fruit bat with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Orange-brown Atlantic tree-rat with a size of 22.7 cm (0′ 9″)
Animals with the same litter size as a White-footed tamarin
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a White-footed tamarin: