One clip names both of them

1.9 million views between them.

Chimpanzee outweighs Rock hyrax 16× — 45 kg against 2.8 kg.

Tale of the tape

Body mass

45 kg

🐒 Chimpanzee · COMBINE

2.75 kg

🐾 Rock hyrax · COMBINE

Body length

0.87 m

🐒 Chimpanzee · COMBINE

0.51 m

🐾 Rock hyrax · COMBINE

Bite force

1,511 N

🐒 Chimpanzee

no figure yet

🐾 Rock hyrax

Maximum lifespan

74 yr

🐒 Chimpanzee · COMBINE

15 yr

🐾 Rock hyrax · 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.

We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.