🐹
Capybara
Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris
Mammals · Least concern
vs
🧍
Human
Homo sapiens
Primates · Least concern
4 clips name both of them
3.2 million views between them.
Human outweighs Capybara 1.2× — 62 kg against 51.6 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic (CC0).
Capybara
0.57 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
Tale of the tape
Body mass
52 kg
🐹 Capybara · COMBINE
62 kg
🧍 Human · AnAge
Shoulder height
0.57 m
🐹 Capybara
no figure yet
🧍 Human
Body length
1.25 m
🐹 Capybara · COMBINE
no figure yet
🧍 Human
Top speed
no figure yet
🐹 Capybara
38 km/h
🧍 Human
Bite force
no figure yet
🐹 Capybara
843 N
🧍 Human
Maximum lifespan
15 yr
🐹 Capybara · COMBINE
123 yr
🧍 Human · AnAge
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.
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.
They last shared an ancestor about 76 million years ago.
Estimates range from 67 to 85 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).