Et sjovt eksperiment med dyr og tal
Animal vs Animal kobler de bedste rigtige dyrevideoer med tal for, hvor store, hurtige og sjældne dyrene faktisk er – og med værktøjer, hvor du selv kan sammenligne to dyr.
The premise is deliberately silly. The purpose is not: curiosity about which animal would win is the shortest route to caring whether it still exists.
Daniel
Daniel built and runs Animal vs Animal. His day job is data storytelling at Datastory — turning public data into things people actually want to look at — and this site is what happens when that instinct meets a lifelong argument about whether a honey badger could take a lion.
Spotted a wrong number or the wrong animal? Tell Daniel — it gets fixed.
The charts here were made with Datastory, a tool for turning data into charts and stories without writing code. datastory.tech →
Credits
Animal descriptions are adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Measurements come from open scientific databases — COMBINE, AVONET, AnAge, ReptTraits, AmphiBIO and FishBase — with taxonomy from GBIF, the family tree from the Open Tree of Life and conservation status from the IUCN Red List. Photos are by the photographers named on each picture, under Creative Commons licences.
Full credits →Care about wildlife?
This site exists to get people curious about animals — and curiosity is the first step to caring whether they survive. Many of the animals here are in trouble. If that bothers you too, these organisations do the real work: