It is hard to guess what a White-lipped tamarin weights. But we have the answer:
An adult White-lipped tamarin (Saguinus labiatus) on average weights 509 grams (1.12 lbs).
The White-lipped tamarin is from the family Callitrichidae (genus: Saguinus). It is usually born with about 40 grams (0.09 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 23.9 cm (0′ 10″). Usually, White-lipped 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-lipped tamarin (Saguinus labiatus), also known as the red-bellied tamarin, is a tamarin which lives in the Amazon area of Brazil and Bolivia.The red belly of these New World monkeys is its most remarkable outward characteristic. Otherwise it is black with a thin white mustache on its face and a black-brown back.They live in social groups of related animals. The mother usually gives birth to one or two young at a time. The father carries the babies most, but siblings (brothers and sisters) will also share the carrying of youngsters, and so learn how to be good carers.There are three subspecies:Saguinus labiatus labiatusSaguinus labiatus rufiventerThomas’ moustached tamarin, Saguinus labiatus thomasi
Animals of the same family as a White-lipped tamarin
We found other animals of the Callitrichidae family:
- Goeldi’s marmoset with a weight of 558 grams
- Pygmy marmoset with a weight of 124 grams
- Black-mantled tamarin with a weight of 450 grams
- Wied’s marmoset with a weight of 375 grams
- Mottle-faced tamarin with a weight of 803 grams
- Buffy-headed marmoset with a weight of 374 grams
- Brown-mantled tamarin with a weight of 393 grams
- Golden-headed lion tamarin with a weight of 573 grams
- Silvery marmoset with a weight of 376 grams
- Moustached tamarin with a weight of 557 grams
Animals with the same weight as a White-lipped tamarin
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Saguinus labiatus:
- Atlantic bamboo rat bringing 600 grams to the scale
- Pied tamarin bringing 465 grams to the scale
- Michoacan pocket gopher bringing 474 grams to the scale
- Yellow-bellied glider bringing 568 grams to the scale
- Brazilian guinea pig bringing 524 grams to the scale
- California ground squirrel bringing 598 grams to the scale
- Central African oyan bringing 570 grams to the scale
- Greater dwarf lemur bringing 447 grams to the scale
- Franklin’s ground squirrel bringing 458 grams to the scale
- Merriam’s pocket gopher bringing 420 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a White-lipped tamarin
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a White-lipped tamarin: