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Common bottlenose dolphin
Tursiops truncatus
Marine mammals · Least concern
vs
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Humpback whale
Megaptera novaeangliae
Marine mammals · Least concern
7 clips name both of them
120,563 views between them.
Humpback whale outweighs Common bottlenose dolphin 130× — 30,000 kg against 230 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
230 kg
🐬 Common bottlenose dolphin · COMBINE
30,000 kg
🐾 Humpback whale · COMBINE
Body length
3.63 m
🐬 Common bottlenose dolphin · COMBINE
14 m
🐾 Humpback whale · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
53 yr
🐬 Common bottlenose dolphin · COMBINE
95 yr
🐾 Humpback whale · COMBINE
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
Животни, уловени на камера
Истински кадри с животните от сайта — как ловуват, как се бият и как просто си живеят.
Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Cetacea (infraorder), home to 171 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 17 million years ago.
Estimates range from 13 to 22 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).