One clip names both of them

1,397 views between them.

Chimpanzee outweighs Meerkat 58× — 45 kg against 0.8 kg.

Tale of the tape

Body mass

45 kg

🐒 Chimpanzee · COMBINE

0.78 kg

🐾 Meerkat · COMBINE

Body length

0.87 m

🐒 Chimpanzee · COMBINE

0.32 m

🐾 Meerkat · COMBINE

Bite force

1,511 N

🐒 Chimpanzee

no figure yet

🐾 Meerkat

Maximum lifespan

74 yr

🐒 Chimpanzee · COMBINE

21 yr

🐾 Meerkat · COMBINE

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 Theria (subclass), home to 9,319 species.

They last shared an ancestor about 81 million years ago.

Estimates range from 74 to 89 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.

About this estimate

Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).