One clip names both of them

22,364 views between them.

Level on mass: Mallard 0.8 kg, Meerkat 0.8 kg.

Tale of the tape

Body mass

0.84 kg

🦆 Mallard · AVONET

0.78 kg

🐾 Meerkat · COMBINE

Body length

no figure yet

🦆 Mallard

0.32 m

🐾 Meerkat · COMBINE

Maximum lifespan

29 yr

🦆 Mallard · AnAge

21 yr

🐾 Meerkat · 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 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.