🦡
Honey badger
Mellivora capensis
Carnivores · Least concern
vs
🧍
Human
Homo sapiens
Primates · Least concern
One clip names both of them
748,182 views between them.
Human outweighs Honey badger 6.2× — 62 kg against 10 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic (CC0).
Honey badger
0.26 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
Tale of the tape
Body mass
10 kg
🦡 Honey badger · COMBINE
62 kg
🧍 Human · AnAge
Shoulder height
0.26 m
🦡 Honey badger
no figure yet
🧍 Human
Body length
0.73 m
🦡 Honey badger · COMBINE
no figure yet
🧍 Human
Top speed
no figure yet
🦡 Honey badger
38 km/h
🧍 Human
Bite force
no figure yet
🦡 Honey badger
843 N
🧍 Human
Maximum lifespan
31 yr
🦡 Honey badger · 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.
حیوانات در قاب دوربین
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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).