🦫
Canadian beaver
Castor canadensis
Mammals · Least concern
vs
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Human
Homo sapiens
Primates · Least concern
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Human outweighs Canadian beaver 3.1× — 62 kg against 19.9 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
20 kg
🦫 Canadian beaver · COMBINE
62 kg
🧍 Human · AnAge
Body length
0.78 m
🦫 Canadian beaver · COMBINE
no figure yet
🧍 Human
Top speed
no figure yet
🦫 Canadian beaver
38 km/h
🧍 Human
Bite force
no figure yet
🦫 Canadian beaver
843 N
🧍 Human
Maximum lifespan
23 yr
🦫 Canadian beaver · COMBINE
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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Imágenes reales de los animales de este sitio: cazando, peleando y haciendo su vida.
Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Euarchontoglires (superorder), home to 4,379 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 76 million years ago.
Estimates range from 67 to 85 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).