🐬
Common bottlenose dolphin
Tursiops truncatus
Marine mammals · Least concern
vs
🦡
North American river otter
Lontra canadensis
Carnivores · Least concern
2 clips name both of them
563 views between them.
Common bottlenose dolphin outweighs North American river otter 28× — 230 kg against 8.1 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
230 kg
🐬 Common bottlenose dolphin · COMBINE
8.09 kg
🦡 North American river otter · COMBINE
Body length
3.63 m
🐬 Common bottlenose dolphin · COMBINE
0.72 m
🦡 North American river otter · COMBINE
Maximum lifespan
53 yr
🐬 Common bottlenose dolphin · COMBINE
27 yr
🦡 North American river otter · 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 Laurasiatheria (superorder), home to 4,193 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.