🧍
Human
Homo sapiens
Primates · Least concern
vs
🐃
Blue wildebeest
Connochaetes taurinus
Mammals · Least concern
One clip names both of them
1,446 views between them.
Blue wildebeest outweighs Human 2.9× — 181 kg against 62 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
62 kg
🧍 Human · AnAge
181 kg
🐃 Blue wildebeest · COMBINE
Body length
no figure yet
🧍 Human
2.21 m
🐃 Blue wildebeest · COMBINE
Top speed
38 km/h
🧍 Human
no figure yet
🐃 Blue wildebeest
Bite force
843 N
🧍 Human
no figure yet
🐃 Blue wildebeest
Maximum lifespan
123 yr
🧍 Human · AnAge
25 yr
🐃 Blue wildebeest · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
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Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Theria (subclass), home to 9,319 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 81 million years ago.
Estimates range from 74 to 89 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).