🫏
Donkey
Equus asinus
Mammals
vs
🐎
Horse
Equus ferus caballus
Mammals
84 clips name both of them
590,360 views between them.
Horse outweighs Donkey 1.8× — 300 kg against 165 kg.
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.
Donkey
1.25 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Horse
1.61 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
165 kg
🫏 Donkey · AnAge
300 kg
🐎 Horse · AnAge
Shoulder height
1.25 m
🫏 Donkey
1.61 m
🐎 Horse
Top speed
no figure yet
🫏 Donkey
64 km/h
🐎 Horse
Maximum lifespan
47 yr
🫏 Donkey · AnAge
57 yr
🐎 Horse · 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 Equus (genus), home to 31 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.