One clip names both of them

12,957 views between them.

Barred Owl outweighs Eastern gray squirrel 1.3× — 0.7 kg against 0.5 kg.

Tale of the tape

Body mass

0.71 kg

🦉 Barred Owl · AVONET

0.54 kg

🐿️ Eastern gray squirrel · COMBINE

Body length

no figure yet

🦉 Barred Owl

0.32 m

🐿️ Eastern gray squirrel · COMBINE

Maximum lifespan

34 yr

🦉 Barred Owl · AnAge

24 yr

🐿️ Eastern gray squirrel · COMBINE

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 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.