🦆
Mallard
Anas platyrhynchos
Birds · Least concern
vs
🧍
Human
Homo sapiens
Primates · Least concern
4 clips name both of them
11 million views between them.
Human outweighs Mallard 74× — 62 kg against 0.8 kg.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
0.84 kg
🦆 Mallard · AVONET
62 kg
🧍 Human · AnAge
Top speed
no figure yet
🦆 Mallard
38 km/h
🧍 Human
Bite force
no figure yet
🦆 Mallard
843 N
🧍 Human
Maximum lifespan
29 yr
🦆 Mallard · AnAge
123 yr
🧍 Human · AnAge
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 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.