🐎
Horse
Equus ferus caballus
Mammals
vs
🧍
Human
Homo sapiens
Primates · Least concern
25 clips name both of them
43,978 views between them.
Horse outweighs Human 4.8× — 300 kg against 62 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic (CC0).
Horse
1.61 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
Tale of the tape
Body mass
300 kg
🐎 Horse · AnAge
62 kg
🧍 Human · AnAge
Shoulder height
1.61 m
🐎 Horse
no figure yet
🧍 Human
Top speed
64 km/h
🐎 Horse
38 km/h
🧍 Human
Bite force
no figure yet
🐎 Horse
843 N
🧍 Human
Maximum lifespan
57 yr
🐎 Horse · AnAge
123 yr
🧍 Human · AnAge
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).