4 clips name both of them

57,419 views between them.

Level on mass: Chicken 0.8 kg, Mallard 0.8 kg.

Tale of the tape

Body mass

0.75 kg

🐔 Chicken · AVONET

0.84 kg

🦆 Mallard · AVONET

Maximum lifespan

30 yr

🐔 Chicken · AnAge

29 yr

🦆 Mallard · 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 Galloanserae (superorder), home to 888 species.

They last shared an ancestor about 79 million years ago.

Estimates range from 72 to 89 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.

About this estimate

Dates from Jetz, Thomas, Joy, Hartmann & Mooers 2012, Nature 491:444 (CC0).