🦫
Canadian beaver
Castor canadensis
Mammals · Least concern
vs
🦋
Monarch butterfly
Danaus plexippus
Arthropods · Least concern
One clip names both of them
65,971 views between them.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
20 kg
🦫 Canadian beaver · COMBINE
no figure yet
🦋 Monarch butterfly
Body length
0.78 m
🦫 Canadian beaver · COMBINE
no figure yet
🦋 Monarch butterfly
Maximum lifespan
23 yr
🦫 Canadian beaver · COMBINE
no figure yet
🦋 Monarch butterfly
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 Metazoa (kingdom), home to 1,490,245 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.