🐍
Adder
Vipera berus
Reptiles · Least concern
vs
🐦
Grey Heron
Ardea cinerea
Birds · Least concern
One clip names both of them
88,094 views between them.
Grey Heron outweighs Adder 5.2× — 1.4 kg against 0.3 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
0.28 kg
🐍 Adder · AnAge
1.44 kg
🐦 Grey Heron · AVONET
Body length
0.75 m
🐍 Adder · ReptTraits
no figure yet
🐦 Grey Heron
Maximum lifespan
19 yr
🐍 Adder · AnAge
38 yr
🐦 Grey Heron · AnAge
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
Animals caught on camera
Real footage of the animals on this site — hunting, fighting, and getting on with it.
Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Sauria (order), home to 32,042 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.