🐒
Chimpanzee
Pan troglodytes
Primates · Endangered
vs
🧍
Human
Homo sapiens
Primates · Least concern
5 clips name both of them
3.1 million views between them.
Human outweighs Chimpanzee 1.4× — 62 kg against 45 kg.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic — T. Michael Keesey (vectorization) and Tony Hisgett (photography) (CC BY); others CC0.
Chimpanzee
1.35 m
full standing height · measured standing
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
Tale of the tape
Body mass
45 kg
🐒 Chimpanzee · COMBINE
62 kg
🧍 Human · AnAge
Body length
0.87 m
🐒 Chimpanzee · COMBINE
no figure yet
🧍 Human
Top speed
no figure yet
🐒 Chimpanzee
38 km/h
🧍 Human
Bite force
1,511 N
🐒 Chimpanzee
843 N
🧍 Human
Maximum lifespan
74 yr
🐒 Chimpanzee · 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 Homininae (subfamily), home to 24 species.
They last shared an ancestor about 4.0 million years ago.
Estimates range from 3.1 to 5.6 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.
About this estimate
Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).