🦬
American bison
Bison bison
Mammals · Near threatened
vs
🦅
Golden eagle
Aquila chrysaetos
Birds · Least concern
2 clips name both of them
11,087 views between them.
American bison outweighs Golden eagle 150× — 625 kg against 4.2 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic (CC0).
American bison
1.66 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Golden eagle
0.61 m
full standing height · measured standing
Tale of the tape
Body mass
625 kg
🦬 American bison · COMBINE
4.25 kg
🦅 Golden eagle · AVONET
Shoulder height
1.66 m
🦬 American bison
no figure yet
🦅 Golden eagle
Body length
2.9 m
🦬 American bison · COMBINE
no figure yet
🦅 Golden eagle
Top speed
52 km/h
🦬 American bison
no figure yet
🦅 Golden eagle
Maximum lifespan
33 yr
🦬 American bison · COMBINE
48 yr
🦅 Golden eagle · AnAge
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
Animales captados por la cámara
Imágenes reales de los animales de este sitio: cazando, peleando y haciendo su vida.
Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Tetrapoda (superclass), home to 51,389 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.