One clip names both of them

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Southern elephant seal outweighs Chimpanzee 31× — 1,400 kg against 45 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.

Tale of the tape

Body mass

45 kg

🐒 Chimpanzee · COMBINE

1,400 kg

🦭 Southern elephant seal · COMBINE

Body length

0.87 m

🐒 Chimpanzee · COMBINE

6.34 m

🦭 Southern elephant seal · COMBINE

Bite force

1,511 N

🐒 Chimpanzee

no figure yet

🦭 Southern elephant seal

Maximum lifespan

74 yr

🐒 Chimpanzee · COMBINE

23 yr

🦭 Southern elephant seal · 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.