🦬
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.
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.