🦤
Dodo
Raphus cucullatus
Birds · Extinct
vs
🫏
Donkey
Equus asinus
Mammals
One clip names both of them
2,463 views between them.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic — Maija Karala (CC BY-NC-SA); others CC0.
Dodo
0.70 m
full standing height · measured standing
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Donkey
1.25 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
no figure yet
🦤 Dodo
165 kg
🫏 Donkey · AnAge
Shoulder height
no figure yet
🦤 Dodo
1.25 m
🫏 Donkey
Maximum lifespan
no figure yet
🦤 Dodo
47 yr
🫏 Donkey · 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 Tetrapoda (superclass), home to 51,389 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.