🐹
Capybara
Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris
Mammals · Least concern
vs
🐒
Ring-tailed lemur
Lemur catta
Primates · Endangered
One clip names both of them
1,588 views between them.
Capybara outweighs Ring-tailed lemur 20× — 51.6 kg against 2.6 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
52 kg
🐹 Capybara · COMBINE
2.56 kg
🐒 Ring-tailed lemur · COMBINE
Shoulder height
0.57 m
🐹 Capybara
no figure yet
🐒 Ring-tailed lemur
Body length
1.25 m
🐹 Capybara · COMBINE
0.42 m
🐒 Ring-tailed lemur · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
15 yr
🐹 Capybara · COMBINE
37 yr
🐒 Ring-tailed lemur · 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.
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).