🦅
Golden eagle
Aquila chrysaetos
Birds · Least concern
vs
🧍
Human
Homo sapiens
Primates · Least concern
2 clips name both of them
747,720 views between them.
Human outweighs Golden eagle 15× — 62 kg against 4.2 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
To scale
Grid at 50 cm
50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m
Silhouettes: PhyloPic (CC0).
Golden eagle
0.61 m
full standing height · measured standing
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
Tale of the tape
Body mass
4.25 kg
🦅 Golden eagle · AVONET
62 kg
🧍 Human · AnAge
Top speed
no figure yet
🦅 Golden eagle
38 km/h
🧍 Human
Bite force
no figure yet
🦅 Golden eagle
843 N
🧍 Human
Maximum lifespan
48 yr
🦅 Golden eagle · 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.