One clip names both of them

54 views between them.

Black-tailed jackrabbit outweighs Eastern gray squirrel 4.3× — 2.3 kg against 0.5 kg.

Tale of the tape

Body mass

2.32 kg

🐇 Black-tailed jackrabbit · COMBINE

0.54 kg

🐿️ Eastern gray squirrel · COMBINE

Body length

0.51 m

🐇 Black-tailed jackrabbit · COMBINE

0.32 m

🐿️ Eastern gray squirrel · COMBINE

Maximum lifespan

12 yr

🐇 Black-tailed jackrabbit · COMBINE

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 Euarchontoglires (superorder), home to 4,379 species.

We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.