🐬
Common bottlenose dolphin
Tursiops truncatus
Marine mammals · Least concern
vs
🐬
False killer whale
Pseudorca crassidens
Marine mammals · Near threatened
One clip names both of them
3,696 views between them.
False killer whale outweighs Common bottlenose dolphin 5.9× — 1,360 kg against 230 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
230 kg
🐬 Common bottlenose dolphin · COMBINE
1,360 kg
🐬 False killer whale · COMBINE
Body length
3.63 m
🐬 Common bottlenose dolphin · COMBINE
6.1 m
🐬 False killer whale · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
53 yr
🐬 Common bottlenose dolphin · COMBINE
62 yr
🐬 False killer whale · COMBINE
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 Delphinidae (family), home to 60 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.